I prefer feeling insignificant," said Jess.
"I don't believe that."
"I didn't say worthless, I said insignificant, as in the grand scheme of things."
"But why?"
"Because humans have such a complex. We're so self-involved. You have to get out to a place like this to remember how small humanity really is."
And Jess was right. Numbers didn't matter here. Money didn't count, and all the words and glances, the quick exchanges that built or tore down reputations had no meaning in this place. The air was moist. Fallen leaves, spreading branches, and crisscrossing roots wicked water, so that the trees seemed to drink the misty air.
Jess said, "All your worries fade away, because..."
Emily finished her thought. "The trees put everything in perspective.


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No one up the chain of command has ever been held accountable for what is in these horrifying images...
BILL GOODMAN
There are still vast numbers of documents that are concealed and hidden and declared to be secret an...
BILL GOODMAN
There's an opportunity in mobile communications and wireless to create radios that can run at very h...
BOB GOODMAN
This is a normal, cyclical slowdown in growth, engineered by the Fed. That's what the Fed told us th...
BOB GOODMAN
This is a normal, cyclical slowdown in growth, engineered by the Fed, ... That's what the Fed told u...
BOB GOODMAN
Assuming theres insurance, there would be no reason not to carry on, ... This just pushes us back on...
BOB GOODMAN
Things were terrible then and, comparatively, were really having great times right now, ... The poin...
BOB GOODMAN
I think it's admirable,
BOB GOODMAN
Most of the speakers are good, some are excellent. Usually people get a chance to talk one-on-one wi...
BOB GOODMAN
There is no doubt that if you are a bass fisherman, you will learn a few tricks,
BOB GOODMAN
I think were seeing buyers sitting back and looking to see what happens over the next several months...
BOB GOODMAN
He definitely brings people out to see him.
BRAD GOODMAN
Coach has been talking about heart all week. We've been doing a lot of rebounding drills. We haven't...
BRAD GOODMAN
Yes it was. We needed it. We need one (today), too.
BRAD GOODMAN
We have the potential to beat anyone in the state, but we've got to play our game. We've got to brin...
BRAD GOODMAN
I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my bes...
LEN GOODMAN
Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.
GOODMAN ACE
I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.
GOODMAN ACE
I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you cant recall it, forg...
GOODMAN ACE
Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating
GOODMAN ACE
I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you canââ‚...
GOODMAN ACE
TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medi...
GOODMAN ACE
The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's
GOODMAN ACE
I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one
GOODMAN ACE
Humor prevents a "hardening of the attitudes."
JOEL GOODMAN
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths diff...
NELSON GOODMAN
Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought com...
JOHN GOODMAN
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only y...
PAUL GOODMAN
Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the s...
PAUL GOODMAN
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.
WALTER GOODMAN
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to...
ELLEN GOODMAN
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each...
ELLEN GOODMAN
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are thos...
ELLEN GOODMAN
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that...
ELLEN GOODMAN
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
ELLEN GOODMAN
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with yo...
ELLEN GOODMAN
The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you ...
PAUL GOODMAN
Few great men could pass Personnel.
PAUL GOODMAN
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
ROY GOODMAN
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are thos...
ELLEN GOODMAN
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are th...
ELLEN GOODMAN
"God works in many ways His wonders to perform." But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived ov...
PAUL GOODMAN
In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.
PAUL GOODMAN
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have se...
PAUL GOODMAN
It rarely adds anything to say, ''In my opinion'' -not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only yo...
PAUL GOODMAN
When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ig...
PAUL GOODMAN
What we're saying to people is 'Look, we'll wipe that (Internet access) cost out for you, but make y...
PAUL GOODMAN
Desperate families have been waiting for government action on the CSA since its last chief executive...
PAUL GOODMAN
I am willing to completely challenge and face the legal threat.
PAUL GOODMAN
I am often involved in individual housing cases when constituents ask for my help. This chance to vi...
PAUL GOODMAN
This is one of the most difficult retail businesses to be successful at because with most businesses...
PAUL GOODMAN
You'll have to rent a shop, open a retail display area, buy the refrigerators and equipment and subs...
PAUL GOODMAN
They can do that because there are additional revenue streams available beyond the hardware. That ch...
MICHAEL GOODMAN
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cr...
ELLEN GOODMAN
Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the...
ELLEN GOODMAN
Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman g...
LEN GOODMAN
Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.
JOHN GOODMAN
I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.
LEN GOODMAN
I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How...
BENNY GOODMAN