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Book cover for The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures)
The regional icons—salmon and trees and mountains and water—spring from the elements. If people here become too far removed from those basic sources of life, then they lose the bond to a better world.
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DaShanne Stokes
“If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.”
DaShanne Stokes

Kevin Ansbro
“Life is capricious; one moment you're high on a mountain peak with flag in hand, the next you're clinging to an icy ledge by your fingertips.”
Kevin Ansbro

Anthony Ray Hinton
“Every single one wants to matter. We want our lives, and our stories and the choices we made or didn’t make to matter.”
Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

James Lee Burke
“Then Belmont discovered the carnival world of Louisiana politics, in the way a mental patient might wander into a theme park for the insane and realize that life held more promise than he had ever dreamed.

Burke, James Lee. Purple Cane Road (Dave Robicheaux Book 11)”
James Lee Burke, Purple Cane Road

Bryan Stevenson
“Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous.”
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

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