Rapids Quotes

“I do not know, really, how we will survive without places like the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon to visit. Once in a lifetime, even, is enough. To feel the stripping down, an ebb of the press of conventional time, a radical change of proportion, an unspoken respect for others that elicits keen emotional pleasure, a quick intimate pounding of the heart.

The living of life, any life, involves great and private pain, much of which we share with no one. In such places as the Inner Gorge the pain trails away from us. It is not so quiet there or so removed that you can hear yourself think, that you would even wish to; that comes later. You can hear your heart beat. That comes first.”
― Barry López, Crossing Open Ground

“We steer into the rapids, not away from them, and that's going to feel weird, but that's how we get through them.”
― Erica Ferencik, The River at Night

“The rapids only take because you have to learn how to pull through.”
― Dominic Riccitello

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“They leave to test the waters but fail to realize the waters are full of rapids.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“But what happens when there’s a ripple in the flow and it turns out to be more than you can handle?”
― Dominic Riccitello