Cheap Land Colorado Quotes

“Another change in our lifetime is a reassessment of humankind's relationship with nature. Ideas of dominating the natural world, of taming and subjecting it to the human will, are in retreat as Americans, with some foot-dragging, join other countries in responding to climate change, a crisis that our country, in producing so much carbon dioxide, has had such a big hand in creating.”
― Ted Conover, Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge

“The scientist (Arvind Panjabi) concluded by sharing some steps ordinary people could take to help birds, such as keeping cats indoors, marking windows so birds won't crash into them, reducing the size of lawns and growing native plants, and watching birds and sharing what you see.”
― Ted Conover, Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge

“One metric of a good life, in my book, is the number of interesting situations one can engage in, learn from, hang out with.”
― Ted Conover, Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge

“Instead of an American suburb circa the 1970's, I was headed in winter, to the far margins to live among the self-sufficient, the alienated, the smokers, the wounded, the dreamers and the hermits.”
― Ted Conover, Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge

“We all screw up, we just have to strive for better. I owe a lot of my success in life to being able to forgive...myself." - person living in San Luis Valley”
― Ted Conover, Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge

“When the conversation next turned to a custody issue she was having, it carried me away from feelings of prairie freedom to a sadder, more universal world of poor people’s pain.”
― Ted Conover, Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge