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?
“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
“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
“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
“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.”
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
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