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“if there is a point to being in the canyon, it is not to rush but to linger, suspended in a blue-and-amber haze of in-between-ness, for as long as one possibly can. To float, to drift, savoring the pulse of the river on its odyssey through the canyon, and above all, to postpone the unwelcome and distinctly unpleasant moment when one is forced to reemerge and reenter the world beyond the rim-that is the paramount goal.”
― The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
― The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
“But they have preserved an aspect of the American persona that is uniquely vital to the health of this republic. Among many other things, those dirtbag river runners uphold the virtue of disobedience: the principle that in a free society, defiance for its own sake sometimes carries value and meaning, if only because power in all of its forms—commercial, governmental, and moral—should not always and without question be handed what it demands.”
― The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
― The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
“The English novelist J. B. Priestley once said that if he were an American, he would make the final test of whatever men chose to do in art, business, or politics a comparison with the Grand Canyon. He believed that whatever was false and ephemeral would be exposed for what it was when set against that mass of geology and light. Priestley was British, but he had placed his finger on an abiding American truth: the notion that the canyon stands as one of our most important touchstones—a kind of roofless tabernacle whose significance is both natural and national. It is our cathedral in the desert, and the word our is key because although the canyon belongs to the entire world, we, as Americans, belong particularly to it.”
― The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
― The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
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