River by Colin Fletcher

Author:Colin Fletcher [Fletcher, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8041-5243-3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2014-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

Above Trin-Alcove Bend. The panorama “rock entire.” “Only the recessed river, far below, winding brown and green-fringed, seemed alive—and also a giver of life.”

Their advocates see—or pretend to see—such action as sensible, even heroic. Ron Arnold, co-founder of the “Wise Use” Coalition recently said: “Our goal is to destroy, to eradicate the environmental movement.… We want to be able to exploit the environment for private gain, absolutely … and we want people to understand that this is a noble goal.”

We are indeed a wonderful and unique species—with stunning potential.)

At last I turned and walked back down, following an easy though wide-sweeping route that my moseying had revealed. Half an hour later I was once more floating seaward.

The river flowed smooth and simple, complicated only by swirls and side currents. Soon, the bounding red cliffs began to grow taller. When I looked up at their glorious, solemn, blue-varnished rock faces, the rims seemed very far away. And above the rims I could see only a narrowing strip of bright blue sky. But my mind’s eye no longer stopped short at the rim. My river world stretched wider, now.

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