Donovan Colegrove
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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.
“We save rivers and canyons and mountains, and they save us.”
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
― 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.”
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
“When darkness is at its darkest, that is the beginning of all light.”
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
“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.”
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
― 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.”
― 1984
― 1984
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