Donovan Colegrove

“It reminded me that if you spend a few hours in a national park, you check it off a list. If you spend a few days, you develop an attachment that lasts a long time, maybe even a lifetime. If you spend more than that, you become an advocate, a defender, an evangelist.”
― Mark Woods, Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

“In English, there is no verb ‘to river’. But what could be more of a verb than a river?”
― Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive?

“I had thought once past there my reward will begin, but now everything seems kind of empty and I find I already have my reward—in the doing of the thing. The stars and cliffs and canyons, the roar of the rapids, the moon, the uncertainty, worry, the relief when thru each one, the campfires at night, the real respect and friendship of the rivermen I met.”
― Mark Woods, Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

“It is always sunrise somewhere,” he wrote in a journal. “The dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
― Mark Woods, Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks