Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer, 1996
Βιογραφίες και απομνημονεύματα Ταξίδια και φύση
Ατμόσφαιρα: δέος, φόβος και λαχτάρα. Μιλά για τη φύση, την ελευθερία και τον πόλεμο.
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Early on a difficult climb, especially a difficult solo climb, you constantly feel the abyss pulling at your back. To resist takes a tremendous conscious effort; you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The siren song of the void puts you on edge; it makes your movements tentative, clumsy, herky-jerky. But as the climb goes on, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control. By and by your attention becomes so intensely focused that you no longer notice the raw knuckles, the cramping thighs, the strain of maintaining nonstop concentration. A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Hours slide by like minutes. Βιβλία με παρόμοια αίσθηση
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Ερωτήσεις αναγνωστών
- Πώς είναι το «Into the Wild»;
- Ατμόσφαιρα: δέος, φόβος και λαχτάρα. Μιλά για τη φύση, την ελευθερία και τον πόλεμο.
- Τι να διαβάσω μετά το «Into the Wild»;
- Αν σου άρεσε το «Into the Wild», δοκίμασε «Άθραυστος» (Laura Hillenbrand), «Το πρώτο μου καλοκαίρι στη Σιέρα» (John Muir) και «Νότος» (Ernest Shackleton).
Μια γεύση από τη ροή
Τραβάς κάτι από τη θέση του και κινείται ολόκληρο το βουνό.
No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons. This quick, inevitable interest attaching to everything seems marvelous until the hand of God becomes visible; then it seems reasonable that what interests Him may well interest us. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow mountaineers.
Το πρώτο μου καλοκαίρι στη Σιέρα · John Muir
Το ερώτημα που οι εξισώσεις δεν μπορούν να απαντήσουν.
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Μια σύντομη ιστορία του χρόνου · Stephen W. Hawking
Το σύμπαν κυβερνά την απέραντη πολυπλοκότητά του χωρίς θεϊκή παρέμβαση.
There is no God-Creator, but there is the Cosmos, which creates suns, planets and living beings. There is no omnipotent God, but there is the Universe, which governs the fates of all celestial bodies and their inhabitants. There are no sons of God, but there are mature and thus rational and perfect sons of the Cosmos. There are no personal gods, but there are elected leaders of planets, solar systems, stellar groups, milky ways, islands of ether and the whole Cosmos. There is no Christ, but there is a brilliant man and a greater teacher of mankind.
Cosmos · Carl Sagan
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