Steve

“In 1997, a killer whale killed a great white shark off the Farallones, the Super Bowl of species conflict on planet Earth.”
― Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco

“We need a new ethic of place, one that has room for salmon and skyscrapers, suburbs and wilderness, Mount Rainier and the Space Needle, one grounded in history.”
― Matthew Klingle, Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle

“How is it that people look at the same city and see such very different places? The answer lies in history, or, more accurately, in how people have chosen to remember the past. The habit of regarding culture and nature as binary categories has shaped how we view cities and their dynamic environments. The result is a kind of intellectual myopia in which 'history is experienced as nostalgia and nature as regret--as a horizon fast disappearing behind us.”
― Matthew Klingle, Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle

“People who live on continents get into the habit of regarding the ocean as journey's end, the full stop at the end of the trek. For people who live on islands, the sea is always the beginning. It's the ferry to the mainland, the escape route from the boredom and narrowness of home.”
― Jonathan Raban, Coasting: A Private Voyage