Anna Black

“. . . the only real cure for provincialism is not dictated by our awareness of the size and diversity of the human family alone, but also by our awareness of the staggering size and diversity of the more-than-human community of nature.”
― George B. Handley, Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River

“Our bodies no longer serve us as they once did as instruments of our living. Now they are excess baggage, things to be maintained so that we can continue to live as if they were irrelevant, as if we were not embodied biological matter, destined to the same fate as bracken dead leaves and the mound of rodent hair I found plastered by winter's snows against the front stairs of the cabin.”
― George B. Handley, Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River

“I like the idea of my body joining the drainage, the idea of dissipating into water and soil, becoming fish and plants or quaking aspen green.”
― George B. Handley, Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River

“My problem was adolescent: every turn in the trail, every new expanse that came into view, pulled me forward and I felt like pouting now that we had to leave all of it behind.”
― George B. Handley, Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River