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“Beauty is worth saving. An impractical, beautiful dirt road with a shading canopy can nourish a person’s mind and spirit, and people who are fed by the lovely aspects around them enrich the life of any town.”

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source: “Country Road,” in Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2010), 124.

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“Risks are a measure of people. People who won’t take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.”

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source: It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be (New York: Phaidon, 2003), 57.

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