47 Quotes by Timothy Egan

This paradox – how a belief founded on a gospel of love could cause so much pain – is a big reason why people are leaving the church in droves. And it’s no small part of my struggle as I step into the pilgrim realm.

Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized,” Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was “sinister,” a symptom of “our stupendous ignorance.

Within sight of Seattle and Vancouver are flanks of the earth that have yet to feel a human footprint.

Far ahead of his time, and to the criticism of isolationists in his own party, Roosevelt tried to get the major nations of the world to come together and take stock of the globe they shared.

Good pictures, Curtis explained, are not products of chance, but come from long hours of study.

In the fall of 1887, Ed Curtis and his father arrived in the Puget Sound area, which was opening up to land opportunists after treaties had removed most of the Indian, and all of the British, claims to the region.

It scares them because of the forced intimacy with a place that gives nothing back to a stranger, a place where the land and its weather – probably the most violent and extreme on earth – demand only one thing: humility.

Two of the biggest volcanoes in the Northwest, Hood and Rainier, are named for wartime enemies of America.

The Pacific Northwest is simply this: wherever the salmon can get to. Rivers without salmon have lost the life source of the area.