Rafting

I come from a

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I come from a family of conservation activists, and so I’ve had a strong connection to nature all my life. My father has been a leader within the movement for over thirty years and has taught most of what I know about environmental conservation. While he would always take me hiking, camping, and rafting, he … Read more

I\\’d say that, in

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I’d say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our lives and introducing us to the power of natural landscapes, his [my father’s] biggest impact on my thinking has been to always argue that the \”spiritual case for Nature\” was not going to … Read more

Night and day the

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Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans … Read more

I see an America

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I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature’s wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people. Franklin D. Roosevelt

After you’re dead and

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After you’re dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what’s going to be your best memory of Earth? What one moment for you defines what it’s like to be alive on this planet? What’s your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or … Read more

Rivers know this: there

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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
A. A. Milne