Donovan Colegrove

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Book cover for The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
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 ...more
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Robert Macfarlane
“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?

Mark   Woods
“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

Mark   Woods
“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

Mark   Woods
“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

Mark   Woods
“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

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