Nature doesn’t see status or wealth or social position. (Location 249)

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That’s how mentors should be made: not through titles or words but through actions. (Location 285)

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pass a herd of elephants feeding on the combretum veld. “They like to feed now. Do you know why?” Ren turns to ask me. Before I can answer, he continues, “I think it’s because the branches have dew on them and so they like how juicy it is. That’s what I think.” It’s a question I have never even thought to ask, and it contains an insight into a weakness of mine: I tend to just accept what I see. Ren always looks closer, he always asks why. He has a gift for examining the wallpaper of life. (Location 314)

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The art of the way the tracker sees is the way he can look at the thing he has seen a thousand times and always see something new. (Location 318)

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There’s a low-lying depression and anxiety plaguing modern life—a symptom of an undiagnosed homesickness to feel a belonging to the greater ecosystem and know ourselves in relation rather than isolation. (Location 330)

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I can only truly know myself in forgotten places. (Location 334)

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easy silence of old friendship. (Location 338)

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