Living by Water: Essays on Life, Land and Spirit - Brenda Peterson

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Living by Water: Essays on Life, Land and Spirit, Brenda Peterson, 1990, United States, ESSAYS

"..."Success in, say, Los Angeles, where the sun always shines, or New York, where city dwellers equate the sun with Con Edison, is a much more external affair...But in the misty San Juan Islands, in the gray, rain-swept cityscapes of Seattle, in the high, snowed-in hollows of the Olympics and the cloud-shadowed deserts of Eastern Washington there is so much hidden about the land, the lives. Here, what you see is not what you get."...She draws parallels between the women who have been murdered by the Green River killer and the environment we seem to care so little for..."

(E.B., p. 333)