Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.
Susan OrleanI don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.
Susan OrleanTags: humor
I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.
Susan OrleanAn ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
Susan OrleanIf you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger?
Susan OrleanThe world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.
Susan OrleanI, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything in its way mattered, that working hard mattered, that feeling things mattered, that even sadness and loss mattered, because it was all part of something that would live on. But I had also come to recognize that not everything needs to be durable. the lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating. Rin Tin Tin did not need to be remembered in order to be happy; for him, it was always enough to have that instant when the sun was soft, when the ball was tossed and caught, when the beloved rubber doll was squeaked. Such a moment was complete in itself, pure and sufficient.
Susan OrleanTags: life dogs permanence
Good quote: Lee was thirty-nine, still what we would consider a fairly young man, but for the dog-for all dogs- time dashes forward at a speed we humans can hardly perceive, until the day we realize that the puppy is no longer a puppy and has outpaced us. And yet a part of us lags behind, still seeing that old dog as a young dog even when he is standing at life's finish line.(less)
Susan OrleanSometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida
Susan OrleanIt's human nature to set a point in our minds when we feel triumphant and to measure everything that comes after it by how far we fall or rise from that point.
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