Rob Baker

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
― Ronald Reagan

“...one of those moments had just passed, a moment in which normalcy becomes crisis and then flips back so fast it's hard to hang onto the significance of what has just happened" (143).”
― Jo Deurbrouck, Anything Worth Doing: A true story of adventure, friendship and tragedy on the last of the West's great rivers

“On a shrunken planet where nearly every mountain bears bootprints and every mile of river has been run, being 'first' tends to require creative task definition" (111).”
― Jo Deurbrouck, Anything Worth Doing: A true story of adventure, friendship and tragedy on the last of the West's great rivers