Josebud

“Old things deserve respect. Makes me feel bad whenever Dad and I do our job, clearing trees for the forestry service. All of them trees earned their rings, then thwack, gone.”
― Shane Hawk, Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

“The mosaic is so rich and varied that a hiker who descends from the highest point on the North Rim to the lowest point inside the canyon will pass through a spectrum of life equivalent to moving from the cool boreal forests of subarctic Canada to the sunstruck deserts of Mexico that lie just above the Tropic of Cancer—thereby compressing a distribution of plants and animals that typically stretch over more than two thousand horizontal miles into a single vertical mile.”
― Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

“Redbone has seen Europe. He has scurried across its face like a rat.”
― Benjamin Myers, The Perfect Golden Circle

“…determined to tell my story so the world can know the scale of the problem and so we can work to make sure that future generations understand that when one person steps forward to speak truth to power it does more than just redeem them or atone for wrongdoing, it adds to a collective whole, a larger wave of fresh outrage and demands for our government, our representatives and everyone to not just #believewomen but to do better.”
― Christine Blasey Ford, One Way Back: A Memoir