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“The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.”

Long Song Water Oil Miles Streams Columns Woody

Author:James Lee

“Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or dragging your boat through trickling shallows from one pool to the long channel-twisted pool below, hanging up occasionally on shuddering bars of quicksand, making six or eight miles in a day's lazy work, but if you go to the river at all, you tend not to mind. You are not in a hurry there; you learned long since not to be.”

Ifs Mind Long Water Six Summer Lows Rivers Eight Miles Bars Boat Dry Lazy Autumn Pool Twisted Wade Quicksand Shuddering

Book:Goodbye to a river: a narrative

Source: Goodbye to a river: a narrative

“Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.”

Long Faces Interest Planets Oil Miles Canada Sand Mexico Barrels Pipeline National Interests Keystones Gulf Of Mexico Refinery Keystone Pipeline

Author:Jeff Goodell

“As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.”

Long Has Beens I Can Remember Born Memories Boys Raised Miles Legends Astronaut Ohio Good Memories Born And Raised

Author:Neil Armstrong

“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.”

“To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.”

Men Long Childhood He Man Stones Miles Crowded Boyhood

Book:Absalom, Absalom!

Source: Absalom, Absalom!