Donovan Colegrove

“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

“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 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

“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