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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

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“The white man’s laws are good for the white men,” Jack said, “but they are made so as to leave the Indian out.

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“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

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“I can never quite make out the words, and I’m afraid I’ll have to leave Yosemite before I understand what God is saying to me, and what I should be saying back.”
― Mark Woods, Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

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“When darkness is at its darkest, that is the beginning of all light.”
― Mark Woods, Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

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“It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“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

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