keep going, life and its contradictions (18 August 2016)

Nick Nolte and Robert Redford, A Walk in the Woods



I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

- Robert Redford

Robert Redford, All is Lost


When things become insurmountable, some people quit, some keep going for no other reason than to continue. Because that’s all there is to do.

- Robert Redford

Jane Fonda and Robert Redford, Barefoot in the Park

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

- Robert Redford

Mardy Murie


Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

- Margaret 'Mardy' Murie, conservationist*

Mardy and Olaus Murie backpacking in Alaska


I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

- Robert Redford

Robert Redford at a climate change event at the UN

*Mardy Murie, known as the Grandmother of the Conservation Movement, was instrumental in the establishment of the Arctic National Wildlife Range, the implementation of the Wilderness Act and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.