“As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and u...”

“The sky is a meadow of wildstar flowers.”

“I pace the shallow sea, walking the time between, reflecting on the type of fossil Id like to be. I guess Id like my bones to be replaced by some vivid chert, a red ulna or radius, or maybe preserv...”

“Unkar Delta at Mile 73The layers of brick red sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone of the Dox formation deposited a billion years ago, erode easily, giving the landscape an open, rolling character ve...”

“The question haunted me, and the real answer came, as answers often do, not in the canyon but at an unlikely time and in an unexpected place, flying over the canyon at thirty thousand feet on my wa...”

“This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one can only retain it in vignettes, impressions caught in a flash, flipped throug...”

“As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and u...”

“I pace the shallow sea, walking the time between, reflecting on the type of fossil Id like to be. I guess Id like my bones to be replaced by some vivid chert, a red ulna or radius, or maybe preserv...”

“It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint.”

“When visiting the Grand Canyon, make sure you hike into the canyon. And be careful not to fall or step in mule poop.”

“People have been driving off of the canyon for decades. I don't know of any that were accidental. One Ranger who worked here before I did told me that on several occasions, when cars drove off and ...”

“Martha told me, "I don't know how you're going to talk about romance in your book, but you're going to have to because its truly part of all our lives down there-and in a big way- because its an in...”