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“I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.”

Book:Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High

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“Still, some nights I grieved. I grieved as much at what I knew must be the fleeting nature of my present happiness as any loss, any past. We lived on some edge, if we ever lived on a rolling plain. Who knew what attack, what illness. That doubleness again. Like flying: the stillness and speed, serenity and danger.”

Flying Dogs Colorado Jasper

Book:The Dog Stars

Source: The Dog Stars

“Made-up names come from dreamers. Their real names were stolen long ago so they dream up new ones. They make a way out of no way, make names out of no names - pull them from the sky!”

Culture Hope Names Pride Resilience Inclusion Name Appellation Cultural Names

Book:Your Name Is a Song

Source: Your Name Is a Song

“Earth processes that seem trivially slow in human time can accomplish stunning work in geologic time. Let the Colorado River erode its bed by 1/100th of an inch each year (about the thickness of one of your fingernails.) Multiply it by six million years, and you’ve carved the Grand Canyon. Take the creeping pace of which the continents move (about two inches per year on average, or roughly as fast as your fingernails grow). Stretch that over thirty million years, and a continent will travel nearly 1,000 miles. Stretch that over a few billions years, and continents will have time to wander from the tropics to the poles and back, crunching together to assemble super-continents, break apart into new configurations- and do all of that again several times over. Deep time, it could be said, is Nature’s way of giving the Earth room for its history. The recognition of deep time might be geology’s paramount contribution to human knowledge.”

Earth Change Wonder Beauty Geology Colorado Denver Deep Time Rocky Moutains

Book:Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains

Source: Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains

“A crystal clear Colorado sky opens above us, a blue so deep it makes you dizzy. The occasional bright white wispy cloud dances across the firmament, punctuating the deep blue vault of heaven stretching over this paradise.”

Cycling Colorado Blue Skies Colorado Skies

Book:Pilgrim Wheels: Reflections of a Cyclist Crossing America

Source: Pilgrim Wheels: Reflections of a Cyclist Crossing America

“The Rockies are therefore very young and should never be thought of as ancient. They are still in the process of building and eroding, and no one today can calculate what they will look like ten million years from now. They have the extravagant beauty of youth, the allure of adolescence, and they are mountains to be loved.”

Mountains Geology Colorado Rocky Mountains

Book:Centennial

Source: Centennial

“Hey boys, come up here!" Lee's excited shout bounced from rock to rock down the gulch. "I've got all of California right here in this pan!”

Gold California Colorado Panning For Gold

Book:The New Eldorado: The Story of Colorado's Gold and Silver Rushes

Source: The New Eldorado: The Story of Colorado's Gold and Silver Rushes

“Thomas slammed his fist on the table, sending eating utensils flying. “Shameful! It is downright shameful that so-called men of God would use religion to manipulate people.” --from Prairie Grace when Thomas learns how the Indian agents and others are stealing from Native Americans”

Historical Fiction Christian Fiction Colorado Native Americans Sand Creek Massacre

Author:Marilyn Bay Wentz

“Blind Thrust makes good use of Marquis' background as a professional geologist. It is the novel's characters, however, that really stand out. Charles Quantrill is far from a cardboard villain, and as for the heroes, Joe and John Higheagle have a particularly endearing rapport. For suspense fans who enjoy science mixed with their thrills, the novel offers page-turning pleasures. --BlueInk Review”

Native American Earthquakes Colorado Suspense Thriller

Author:BlueInk Review

“Manassa naught, a padded white envelope with no return address, landlocked and antiseptic, exploited like a gas station. Beauty passes through in the briefest of cameos.”

Time Passing Colorado Brian D Ambrosio Jack Dempsey Manassa Old Towns

Book:Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008

Source: Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008

“When he would steal a kiss from her, it always took her breath away. No one kissed like Rick. No other man was able to make her lose all conception of time when he kissed her. That was not all. Rick was fun to work with and made her laugh. As a partner, he had talents that she desperately needed in her business. He was a cunning and crafty man, and his talents helped in solving many cases.”

Colorado Cozy Mystery Elk Estes Park Cacti Haunted Hotels

Book:The Mysterious Doll

Source: The Mysterious Doll

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