Marilynne Robinson : (2)

" I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence. " - Marilynne Robinson

" I read things like theology, and I read about science, ‘Scientific American’ and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted. " - Marilynne Robinson