Donovan Colegrove

“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

“We save rivers and canyons and mountains, and they save us.”
― 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?

“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