Donovan Colegrove
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My definition of disaster became broader and broader, and I now see much of our everyday life—for its alienation and its destruction of souls and memory, as well as natural and social places—as a kind of disaster we escape temporarily in
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“In English, there is no verb ‘to river’. But what could be more of a verb than a river?”
― Is a River Alive?
― Is a River Alive?
“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
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
― 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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