Fire Season Quotes

“Ultimately, I found my instincts mirrored in a line from Thoreau: 'My needle...always settles between west and south-southwest. The future lies that way to me, and the earth seems more exhausted and richer on that side.”
― Phillip Connors

“I want to lengthen, not shorten, my attention span, and most of the material splendors of the twenty-first century bully me in the opposite direction. The fault is mine, I'll admit. I'm too slow-witted, reluctant to evolve, constitutionally unable to get with the program. I can't afford the newest gadgets and I'm not a natural multitasker.”
― Phillip Connors

“The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command.”
― Phillip Connors

“I wasn't even sure what "go available" meant. But I knew I was a rookie and that I should be afraid.”
― Kelly Ramsey, Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West