Christopher Morris > Quotes

“It's amazing what you can accomplish when you set aside your ego.”
― Christopher Morris

“There are two Mississippi Valleys. One is wet, the other dry. The river made the wet valley by flooding it with dirty water and filling it with mud. People made the dry valley by draining it of water and hardening mud into dirt. The two valleys exist in uneasy tension, the wet valley always ready to burst into the dry valley that holds it down.”
― Christopher Morris, The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina

“If you work your hardest and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.”
― Christopher Morris