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Their wordsWhat this means is that, like mountain feyness, certain thoughts and feelings can be said to occur only in certain places.
Their wordsTaking landforms and non-human life seriously as co-authors and co-thinkers means believing that the future facing our environments represents a double threat: the mountain is in danger, therefore so is the ability of certain thoughts to come into being.
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Answers for how to brave the present may come from the relationship between humans and their places.
Their wordsFor if we do find answers for how to brave the present, with its floods and fires, and still keep the faith, they won't come from us alone. They will come from the strength that results from a tightened weave, story after story, between ourselves and our places.
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