Tide, Feather, Snow Quotes

“It would take a year before the answers to those questions became clear, but much longer to realize that it was too easy to pick up a man's dream, his measure of the world, rather than fashion one of my own.”
― Miranda Weiss, Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska

“. . . each feeling was hitched to its opposite, the way centripetal and centrifugal forces keep our universe from collapsing as well as from scattering apart: Strength came with vulnerability, independence with loneliness.”
― Miranda Weiss, Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska

“Wooded islands foregrounded the mainland darkly.”
― Miranda Weiss, Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska

“To live in this place is, in part, to destroy it; that is the paradox -- and the responsibility -- we live with every day.”
― Miranda Weiss, Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska

“. . . [O]ur footprint was always spreading into places where no human development had existed before.”
― Miranda Weiss, Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska

“but I don’t want to tell those stories like that. I don’t ever want to tell stories about what’s gone.”
― Miranda Weiss, Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska

“Somewhere among all of our dreams and disappointments, we have to piece together a compromise.”
― Miranda Weiss, Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska

“The end of anticipation is always a letdown; the beginning is already over.”
― Miranda Weiss, Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska

“Insistent on change, the sea cares nothing for history.”
― Miranda Weiss, Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska