I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river …

Wallace Stegner
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I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me. ✨ Wallace Stegner (2015). The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West, p.35, Vintage
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