6 Quotes by Carolyn Jourdan

Inside a barn is a whole universe, with its own time zone and climate and ecosystem, a shadowy world of swirling dust illuminated in tiger stripes by light shining through the cracks between the boards. Old leather tack, lengths of chain, rope, and baling twine dangled from nails and rafters and draped over stall railings. Generations of pocketknives lay lost in the layers of detritus on the floor.

You know the old joke about how to survive a bear attack: Make sure you hike with someone who you can outrun.

Tourist: “What time do they let the bears out?” Ranger: “They’re out all the time.” Tourist: “What do you mean?

They’s nothin more triflin than a pet groundhog.

People think the park is a display put on by the government to entertain people, rather than understanding that it’s a pristine landscape we’re trying to preserve.

Maybe the ability to confer attention on another person was not simply common courtesy, but was the fundamental act of humanity.