If you waste water, you die.

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge exists in my capacity to love. If I can learn to love death then I can begin to find refuge in change.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.

When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.

When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.