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Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage QUOTES

Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage QUOTES

1 " A peregrine falcon,” a passenger said, “lives at 2180 Yonge Street in Toronto, on the corner of Yonge and Eglinton. It sits high on the Canadian Tire building, hunts from there, brings prey, and in full view of everyone in the offices, tears it to pieces. Blood everywhere. "

― Kathleen Winter , Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage

2 " Everyone longs for a secret door, an opening to a world beyond loneliness — it’s part of the human imagination. But stand under the lowering baskets in Naples all you want — you can’t climb in, or be the women lowering them or the youths catching them and hoisting them to market. And these Arctic hills, gold, blue, and purple, were achingly remote: our ship floated past and they lay just beyond reach. Each breath was a cold shock and the land was magnetic, like an encounter with someone who truly sees you: yet we were offshore. "

― Kathleen Winter , Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage

3 " The first words I encountered in the North were made not through symbols but by rock, sky, and water — and, later, by the profound animals who possessed potent languages of their own. In the dramatic gallery of ice that cracked and floated off the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier into Disko Bay I began to perceive speech and language that proved other than human: to translate it I’d need to understand my own mind and body in a new way. "

― Kathleen Winter , Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage