Donovan Colegrove

“I had thought once past there my reward will begin, but now everything seems kind of empty and I find I already have my reward—in the doing of the thing. The stars and cliffs and canyons, the roar of the rapids, the moon, the uncertainty, worry, the relief when thru each one, the campfires at night, the real respect and friendship of the rivermen I met.”
― Mark Woods, 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.”
― Mark Woods, Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

“We save rivers and canyons and mountains, and they save us.”
― Mark Woods, 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.”
― Mark Woods, Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks