“It can be hard, during the solitary years of writing a book, to imagine it might ever find its way into in the lives & hearts of others.”— Robert Macfarlane, twitter.com
“It is good that for the moment you are going into a profession which will make you independent and mean you only have yourself to rely on, in every sense. Have the patience to wait and see whether your inmost life feels confined by the form of this occupation. I consider it a very difficult and a ve…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com