Geodesign Quotes

#1. Sleep sparks a series of pulses across the webs of neurons, pulses like waves; it washes out what is unnecessary and leaves only what's important behind.

Lauren Groff

#2. And you matter. You fucking matter to me! So you're not allowed to die, you stupid, arrogant dogdick!

R.R. Washburn

#3. Publish and be damned.

H.L. Mencken

#4. I have a journal of everything I've ever climbed since 2005. For the entry about free soloing Half Dome, I put a frowny face and added some little notes about what I should have done better, and then underlined it. Turns out that is one of my biggest climbing achievements.

Alex Honnold

#5. Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.

Jack Dangermond

#6. Who's got a mirror?" I ask.
Spider shrugs at me. "We're all fellas. Why would any of us have mirrors?"
"I've got a mirror!" Brandon declares happily, digging a compact out of his pocket.
No-one is surprised.

Melanie Tushmore

#7. What is this," said the leopard,"that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light?

Rudyard Kipling

#8. A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.

Jack Dangermond

#9. If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.

Alan Hirsch

#10. Children be comforted, I am well.

Joseph Haydn

#11. I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

Karrine Steffans