Interlude: Quotes from Nick Petrie and Ian Mortimer

"If he was in the mountains ... the movement would warm him for the rest of the day, while the snow-capped peaks kept him company in silent perfection.

When you wake on a clifftop in a granite cathedral, it was easy to think you'd chosen that life on purpose.

But when you wake in your perforated truck on a city street ... toward winter ... you tended to wonder ... what the #### you were going to do with the rest of your life. "

N. P., The Drifter, Putnam (Books)

"The wilderness is God's creation unchanged."

I.M., The Outcasts of Time, Pegasus Books

Inspired by Nick Petrie