tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post1791185628606595283..comments2024-03-19T07:10:27.303-07:00Comments on Quark Soup by David Appell: Martha RebenDavid Appellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03318269033139447591noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-68634108033889347882009-08-17T16:54:09.316-07:002009-08-17T16:54:09.316-07:00so great to see someone quoting martha reben, whos...so great to see someone quoting martha reben, whose life and writing changed my life. so i hope you don't mind if i quote the rest of that passage:<br /> <br />" As they went over me, I was there with them, passing over the moonlit countryside, glorying with them in their strong-hearted journeying, exulting in its joy and splendor.<br /><br />The haunted voices grew fainter and faded in distance, but I sat on, stirred by a memory of something beautiful and ancient and now lost - a forgotten freedom we must all once have shared with other wild things, which only they and the wilderness can still recall to us, so that life becomes again, for a time, the wonderful, sometimes frightening, but fiercely joyous treasure it was intended to be."<br /><br />perhaps it is too late, but let's keep trying to keep the wildness and wilderness alive, somehow...corinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04871671424602396031noreply@blogger.com