Donovan Colegrove

“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

“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

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
― 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?