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Park
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If you don't want people to look at you, Park had thought at the time, don't wear fishing lures in your hair. Her jewelry box must look like a junk drawer.
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― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park
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a park ranger is a protector. You protect the land from the people, the people from the land, the people from each other, and the people from themselves. It's what you are trained to do without even thinking, a reflexive and unconditional act. If you're lucky, you get assigned to people who seem worth saving and land and waters whose situation is not hopeless. If not, you save them anyway. And maybe in time, saving them will make them worth it.
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― To Everything on Earth: New Writing on Fate, Community, and Nature
― To Everything on Earth: New Writing on Fate, Community, and Nature
