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Top 50 Timothy Egan Quotes (2024 Update)

Timothy Egan Quote: “You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “I’ll take the advice of Labre, the patron saint of wandering souls, who grew up not far from here: ‘There is no way. The way is made by walking.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “The Pacific Northwest is simply this: wherever the salmon can get to. Rivers without salmon have lost the life source of the area.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Better for a man to fail, he said, even “to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “The Columbia River Bar has swallowed more ships, about 2,100 at last count, than any other location on the Pacific north of Mexico.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Here in the corner attic of America, two hours’ drive from a rain forest, a desert, a foreign country, an empty island, a hidden fjord, a raging river, a glacier, and a volcano is a place where the inhabitants sense they can do no better, nor do they want to.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Rioting over food: how could this be? Here was all this grain, food enough to feed half the world, sitting in piles at the train station, going to waste. Something was out of balance.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related – yet.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “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.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Much of Texas took its prohibition seriously. Not Dalhart. It took its whiskey seriously, in part because some of the finest corn liquor in America was coming out of the High Plains.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “The problem with history was that it was written by the survivors, and they usually wrote in the sunshine on harvest day, from victory stands.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “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.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Upshaw – Apsaroke, 1905. Curtis’s friend and interpreter Alexander Upshaw, “perfectly educated and absolutely uncivilized,” as Curtis said of him, had trouble shuttling between two worlds. He chose to pose in the clothes of his ancestors.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “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.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Every bit of water falling on all of France, channeled into one drainpipe – that’s similar to what goes into the Columbia, or at least a shallow part of it. The river’s source is a glacial drip 2,619 feet above sea level in the foothills of the Canadian Purcells; by its midway point in a high desert, the Columbia has a depth several hundred feet below the ocean plane.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “We are spiritual beings. But for many of us, malnutrition of the soul is a plague of modern life.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Within sight of Seattle and Vancouver are flanks of the earth that have yet to feel a human footprint.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “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.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “The tribes may have been numerous, but the overall population was plummeting. When the results of the 1900 census were published, the government counted only 237,000 Indians in a country of 76 million people. This was the lowest number ever, scholars and Indian authorities said, down from perhaps as many as 10 million at the time of white contact in 1492.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild land can provide work for those who need it as their source of income without being ruined for those who need it as their source of sanity.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Their humanity has been forgotten,” Grinnell said of the predominant way most outsiders looked at Indians – as either savages or victims.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “So cotton growers, siphoning from the Ogallala, get three billion dollars a year in taxpayer money for fiber that is shipped to China, where it is used to make cheap clothing sold back to American chain retail stores like Wal-Mart.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Sealth died in 1866, one year after the city which bore his name passed an ordinance to ban Indians from town.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “At the wedding, women served a dish of cabbage that had been shredded by wooden kraut cutters, mixed with ground pork and onion, wrapped in bread dough, and baked.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “In Pinchot, he saw someone “who could relish, not run from a rainstorm,” as he wrote. Just like himself.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Seattle gets less rain than New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and Miami.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Though a degree from Yale was not required, Pinchot wanted his foresters to be able to write well, for the numerous reports that their enemies in Congress would be second-guessing.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “In court, pricey lawyers from the city try to answer the question: whose life is more endangered, the spotted owl’s or the logger’s? Victims of mutual incompatibility, both owl and logger are disappearing in Oregon, a state that once had enough standing timber to rebuild every house in America.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Chief Sealth, appalled at how his emerald garden had been trashed so quickly, wrote a letter in 1854 to President Franklin Pierce. “The whites, too, shall pass, perhaps sooner than the other tribes,” he wrote with the help of a translator. “Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in waste.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “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.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Naturalist Roger Tory Peterson has calculated that the Olympic Rain Forest is weighted down with more living matter than any other place on earth.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Two of the biggest volcanoes in the Northwest, Hood and Rainier, are named for wartime enemies of America.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Madge Oberholtzer deserves a plaque of her own.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Good pictures, Curtis explained, are not products of chance, but come from long hours of study.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “He discovered that if he said something often enough, no matter how untrue, people would believe it. Small lies were for the timid. The key to telling a big lie was to do it with conviction. He.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “They didn’t hide by day and only come out at night. They were people who held their communities together, bankers and merchants, lawyers and doctors, coaches and teachers, servants of God and shapers of opinion.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tide of rivers, the vast compass of the ocean, the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.” We are spiritual beings. But for many of us, malnutrition of the soul is a plague of modern life.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Beckey’s fame spread through word of mouth. There were stories about his wolf howl, a blood-chilling sound, which Beckey would use to scare tourists away from his favorite campsites.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Isn’t it strange that with all our educational advantages,” noted the Hoosier writer Meredith Nicholson, so many “Indiana citizens could be induced to pay $10 for the privilege of hating their neighbors and wearing a sheet?”
Timothy Egan Quote: “The preacher said Madge’s spirit belonged to Irvington, and Irvington must be there for her memory: “Let us not forget that in coming here today we have not fulfilled our obligations of friendship,” he said. In the days, weeks, and years ahead, the family “will need us as never before.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “At least fifty people were taken down to the Trinity River bottoms in Dallas for whippings and acid brandings. Should they call the police, they would be reporting something already known and even encouraged within the blue wall, for a majority of Dallas officers were now oath-bound members of the hooded order. Proof of Malcolm X’s later observation that the Klan had ’changed its bedsheets for a policeman’s uniform.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “The moisture is predatory in this part of the world, and no element, be it stone or wood or tin or steel, lasts very long without losing some part of its composition to the nag of precipitation.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Akron, was home to almost 50,000 members, including the mayor.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “The Klan wanted to make an example of anyone who threatened the ’sanctity of the home.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “At day’s end, he was sitting on his front porch when a member of the Klan walked up the steps of a house nearby and plopped into a chair on the veranda. Once the mask was off, the boy could see that the now visible congregant of the Invisible Empire was his neighbor, Mrs. Crousore.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “He discovered that if he said something often enough, no matter how untrue, people would believe it.”
Timothy Egan Quote: “Steve and Barr also launched poison squads, as they were known on the inside. This was a disinformation brigade – clucks and gossips, but the best-known clucks and gossips in every community, so that false stories could be plausibly true.”
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