Aptitude of Stillness

The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it... In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.

Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen
Karen Blixen (who wrote under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen)

So Pushed as to Rupture!

The ungainly man ... came into view, with as much rapidity as he could excite his meager beast to endure without coming to an open rupture.

When their foes... were within a few rods, the rifle of Hawkeye slowy rose... and pured out it's fatal contents.

Life is an obligation which friends often owe each other in the wilderness.

James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans

Students and Hospitals

The train I took from the airport gradually filled with students.  They all seemed to be wearing T-shirts with messages on them.  Signaling each other like fireflies.

Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book

Grace

Grace, she comes with a heavy load.

Lyric from NEEDTOBREATH