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Edward Abbey
“High on the rosy canyon wall a wren sang out, flute notes falling in a bright cascade of quicksilver semiquavers.”
Edward Abbey, Hayduke Lives!

Larry McMurtry
“Many aging people feel marginal, to some degree. For decades they’re at the center of things, and then one day they’re not. They slip over to the sidelines. They become marginal, and next thing you know they’re old.”
Larry McMurtry, Rhino Ranch

Edward Abbey
“Wall pink like sliced watermelon, right-angled verticality, rising one hundred feet above the graygreen talus of broken rock, scrub juniper, blackbrush, scarlet gilia, purple penstemon, golden prince’s plume. It is the season of spring in the mile-high tablelands of the canyon country. In America the still Beautiful.”
Edward Abbey, Hayduke Lives!

Barack Obama
“To talk about race, you have to talk about your differences. To talk about race, you have to talk about, to some degree, deconstructing the myth of the melting pot, which has never fundamentally been true. To admit that a big part of our history has been plunderous and violent and rigged against people of color. We’re ashamed of our collective guilt. We would have to admit and to grieve for what’s been done. We would have to acknowledge our own daily complicity, and to acknowledge that we are tied to the history of racism.”
Barack Obama, Renegades: Born in the USA

John Graves
“One waxes pessimistic? Not so much … There is a pessimism about land which, after it has been with you a long time, becomes merely factual. Men increase; country suffers. Though I sign up with organizations that oppose the process, I sign without great hope.… Islands of wildlife and native flora may be saved, as they should be, but the big, sloppy, rich, teeming spraddle will go. It always has.”
John Graves, Goodbye to a River: A Narrative

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