17 Matching Annotations
  1. Sep 2017
    1. My stories about this water are only my teμing of the shape as I pass by

      This is important to remember for my own experiences with water, that there has always been and will always be water

    2. cleared a trail for his animals out of these boulders, beating apart rocks by hand to reach . the water.

      This really shows what people will do for water

    3. I tried to take this with my head down, and I worried that my disinterested taking of · measurements might not be the proper response to something giving m.e life

      I think that science isn't disinterested because it helps the environment

    4. vastness reminded him of the Arctic, up by the Brooks Range where great basins of tundra lie between distant and imposing mountains, where _there is no human artifact

      There are still parts of the earth where you can feel alone in nature

    5. The voices were part of a complex lan­guage, a language that formed audible words as water tumbledover rocks, and one that carved senten�s and stories· into thestone. walls that ii: passed

      Water writes history

    6. This place is stained with such ironies, a tension set between the need to find water and the need to get away from it.

      I usually think of deserts without water, and it is an interesting concept that water can also destroy and kill in the desert

    7. At an early age it was obvious to me that w�ter was the ele­ment of co�sequence, the root of everything out here

      Water really matters in the desert because it is so scarce

    1. t holds me at anchor· to the rock bottom of the creek itself and jt keeps me steadied �-thecurrent, as a sea anchor does, facing the stream of light pouring down

      The house keeps her grounded and connects her with nature. Going to one area and observing it for a while is a good way to see water because there is so much that is hard to notice at first glance.

    2. It usually seems _to me that when l see any �imal, 1ts business is llrgent enough that it couldn'.t easily be. stispended for forty-eight hours

      Seems like everything would die in a natural disaster, but it always seems to come back

    3. I expect to See anything at alt ln this one way, the creek is more like it;elf wheri it floods than at any other time: mediating, bring­ing dungs down:

      Water can join people with different experiences

    4. When-you look ag;ilit the whole showhas pulled up stakes and moved on down _the· roa'd. ·rt n�e.r; stops

      Nature is always surprising us when we least expect it

    5. Our lli.e is a fajnt tracing on the sudace of · mystery, like the idle;. cu.ryed tunnels of .leaf minets on the face of a leaf

      We are so small in the grand scheme of things

    6. But if we describe� world to compass these.·things,· a world that· is ·a lo;ng, brutegame, then. we 'bump against another mystery: the inrush of powerand light, the canarythat sings on the ·skul

      There is always life anyway, and it can be quite beautiful even if it is on top of death