“As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.” UsedFallGirlMinutesArmsAngelLegsSnowDespiteFrozenRapidsGenesisPowderDisappearanceZipsArms And LegsSnow Angel Author:Danielle Trussoni
“One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.” WayEnoughScienceFallCausesProcessLossAnimalStepsFoodSourceClimateClimate ChangePopulationCriticalRapidsDisturbingBreedingMismatch Author:Naomi Klein
“Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock, and together again Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain, Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall.” RunningPainTogetherFallSidesAcceptingRocksLoversBedRiversWideHillsFollyHallsLeapValleysSplitsRapidsTogether Again Book:Poems of Sidney Lanier Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier
“[Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized. The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools.” WayEndsFallWaterLevelsSweetMusic IsLowsNotesStreamsPoolRapidsMarginsRefinedWhisperingTranquilMossTrill Author:John Muir
“Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.” ThinkingWayWantMadeStillsPhilosophyCertainFallDealsHorseAimPracticalsThinkerPreachingMultitudesShallowRapidsPromotionStalking Author:Thomas Huxley