“This is survival,' he said. 'Real survival means using whatever resources you find. That's the whole point of it. You're surviving. Anything goes.'
'This isn't survival,' said Mara. . .
'Look at us,' said Kyle. 'Of course it's survival.'
'It's a survival game,' she said. 'We're playing the game. It's not survival if you have a choice.”
― Small Game
'This isn't survival,' said Mara. . .
'Look at us,' said Kyle. 'Of course it's survival.'
'It's a survival game,' she said. 'We're playing the game. It's not survival if you have a choice.”
― Small Game
“Maybe there is dignity in accepting that we need nature because we need each other.”
― Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River
― Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River
“Exhausted and hungry, they climbed the mountain, one slope after another. Until they reached the very top. It was windy, and the wind was cold. And you know what was there? Stone and moss and scraggly trees. Nothing. As good as nothing.”
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“The bear had a strong smell. Like fish and blood, heavy in the air, and Mara thought that maybe she had noticed this smell in the woods before and not known the source. How many bears had she passed at close range in her life? Now she would know when she did. Mara didn't feel scared, but her heart raced, and goose bumps rose on her arms.”
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“So far the response around here has merely been to cry foul, either in the name of a materialistic secularism or in the name of a dogmatic political ideology, both perverted by excessive devotion to narrow self-interest and fear of the moral burdens of uncertainty. This is the reason why we need action guided by the best knowledge we can find but also by the highest principles of accountability to the gift of life. Science alone can't seem to make moral sense of our own nothingness, which is one reason why it is time to begin naming again, morally chastened by an appreciation of what our cartographic imagination has failed to understand.”
― Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River
― Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River
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