“To appreciate beauty is to experience humility—to recognize that something larger and more powerful than oneself is at work in the environment. And humility, it turns out, is key to recognizing that in order to survive, you must adapt yourself… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“The trick would be to find which few of them had the potential for raw power, the nearly superhuman stamina, the indomitable willpower, and… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“But the heat and the drought were in some ways the least of it. On May 9 a colossal dust storm had swung out of eastern Montana, rolled across the Dakotas and Minnesota, dumped 12 million tons of dirt on Chicago, and then moved on to tower over Boston and New York. As they had in November 1933, people stood… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share
“Rowing is perhaps the toughest of sports. Once the race starts, there are no time-outs, no substitutions. It calls upon the limits of human… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“The wood, Pocock murmured, taught us about survival, about overcoming difficulty, about prevailing over adversity, but it also taught us something about the underlying… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“All were merged into one smoothly working machine; they were, in fact, a poem of motion, a symphony of swinging blades.” — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.” — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“was a shared experience—a singular thing that had unfolded in a golden sliver of time long gone, when nine good-hearted young men strove together,… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“It is a small but noteworthy irony that among the first Allied troops who crossed the Elbe River and met up with Russian troops… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“The revelation that one could find free food just sitting on a stump in the woods landed on Joe like a thunderbolt. That night… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“for him the craft of building a boat was like religion. It wasn’t enough to master the technical details of it. You had to… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“It was when he tried to talk about 'the boat' that his words began to falter and tears welled up in his eyes...Finally, watching… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
