“In general, we imagine rivers to be subject to a kind of dynamic equilibrium, largely stable geologic features, with processes like regional incision or subtle shifts in mountain building causing short- and medium-term variation around some slowly changing mean condition,… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“Even as I learned to name the plants -- dogwood, five-fingered fern, mugwort -- I was stunned by the failure of language to reflect… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“Poets dream of being archaeologists, as if their lives were sedimentary, like rocks. Poets don't mind getting down and dirty with the past.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“When a basket is woven, each strand of grass, or reed, or wool, or root, must pass repeatedly through human hands, and this, the… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that is not both narrative and language. Even the paradoxical physics by which the universe is held together is both. We… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“Numbers arrange themselves the way numbers will, just as a word will, a story.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“In general, we imagine rivers to be subject to a kind of dynamic equilibrium, largely stable geologic features, with processes like regional incision or… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
