I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psy — Ann Zwinger, Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psy — Ann Zwinger, Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psy — Ann Zwinger, Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psy — Ann Zwinger, Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psy — Ann Zwinger, Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
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I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psyche goes with the river- always loping downhill, purposeful, listening only to gravity.

— Ann Zwinger, Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
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