“We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin. A river is a different kind of mystery, a mystery of distance and becoming, a mystery of source. Touch its fluent body and you touch far places. You touch a story that must end somewhere but cannot stop telling itself, a story that is always just beginning.” KindDifferentEndsStoriesBodyLyingAsksMysterySourceBecomingRiversDistanceEnvironmentalDepthLakesDifferent KindsFluentTantalizing Book:The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature Source: The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature
“We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to stand and gaze, to glance as we cross a bridge, all of us are drawn to rivers, all of us happily submit to their spell. We need their familiar mystery. We need their fluent lives interflowing with our own.” NeedsWaterMysteryRiversCrossesEnvironmentalFishesFamiliarBridgesSwimSpellsSubmitGlancesSwirlsFluent Book:The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature Source: The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature