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Brenda Wilbee
The month of June saw long, warm days, cloudless blue skies, and mountain peaks that stayed out of hiding--as if intentionally, just to instill more deeply the settlers' conviction that Elliot Bay Seattle was indeed the most beautiful and productive country anyone could live in.
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Bruce Barcott Seattle Times 6/14/98
The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain Mt. Rainier emotionally and psychically, and yet how far away the world is when you're on the mountain.
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Dorothy Krell The Beautiful Northwest
In the vast region touched on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the California and Nevada boundaries, on the east by the Rocky Mountains, and on the north by the Canadian border lies a land of almost unbelievable beauty and diversity.
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Ernie Pyle
The prairies are all right. The mountains are all right. The forests and the deserts and the clear clean air of the heights, they're all right. But what a bewitching thing is a city of the sea. It was good to be in Seattle--to hear the foghorns on the Sound, and the deep bellow of departing steamers' to feel the creeping fog all around you, the fog that softens things and makes a velvet trance out of nighttime.
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James Martin North Cascades Crest: Notes and Images from America's Alps
From my first hike I learned that the Cascades [mountains] deserve their name. The sound of falling water rings everywhere. It murmurs in the forest and roars down cliffs. Tiny rivulets trace eccentric paths on the surface of glaciers, plunging into crevasses and joining one another to become torrents carrying powdered rock to the Pacific. The range harbors tremendous quantities of water in its glaciers, icecaps, and snowfields. When the warmth of summer arrives, the frozen reservoir releases its stores and the mountains sing.
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Janet Burkitt The Seattle Times, Jan. 30, 2000
We in the Seattle area are polite. Famously, indefatigably--some have even gone so far as to say offensively--polite. Our politeness is nationally ranked--No. 8 on a survey last year--and locally treasured. D.C. might have better museums, we tell ourselves, Los Angeles better weather, but do their citizens wait for that flashing WALK sign?
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John Muir
Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.
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John Steinbeck Travels with Charley: In Search of America
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
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Jonathan Rabin in Once Upon a Time in Seattle by Watson
Seattle is not an overly friendly city. It is a civil city, but not altogether friendly. People from outside mistake the civility for friendliness. Seattle is full of people who have their own lives to live. They won't waste their time being friendly. But they are civil.
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Kevin MacCartney in Olympic National Park newsletter, July 1-Sept. 7, 1992
As I emerge from the forested Cape Alava Trail into the open expanse of the magnificent Ozette wilderness coast [87 miles east of Port Angeles, WA], I am always struck with a sense of awe at the beauty of the soaring eagles overhead, the deer grazing in the grass by the edge of the beach, and the islands and seastacks silhouetted by clouds rolling across gray skies in the distance.
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Matt Strieby
Klamath Falls sits on a precarious wall that divides breathtaking panoramas and bleak landscapes of economic misery. When I'm in Klamath Falls, it looks to me like time stopped in 1960 and the entire town was covered by a numbing frost of hard times, hard luck and hard living. Ghosts from an all-American town still lurk in the shadows of long-empty downtown storefronts; faded yellow siding on a house hints at sunnier times. All of this sits paradoxically in the middle of some of the most hauntingly beautiful open sky country in the West. It is this country that redeems the town, and when I leave the basin, I know I've left God's country behind.
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Murray Morgan The Northwest Corner
But each [northwest] city remains, to most of its citizens, a great place to live in. Residents of Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver envy their friends who go on trips, but we feel sorry for those who must move away.
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Paul M. Lewis Our Oregon
About 60 miles north of Klamath Falls lies one of the most glamorous and mystical ornaments in the Cascade diadem. Crater Lake ... still defies the limited power of words to convey the full range of its magic.
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Paul M. Lewis Our Oregon
People have a great need to know there are still places on this earth that can be called wilderness. ... Among the privileged regions of our world where we can still find these hideaways is ... the place called Oregon. ... Here the theatre of the wilderness is ... a living presence.
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Roger Sale Seattle Past to Present
Seattle is a soft city, made up of soft light and hills and water and growing things an a sense that nature is truly accommodating. ? There is no day in the year when it is too hot or too cold to work or get around, and few days when one cannot be outside, in a boat, walking, playing golf or tennis or going fishing. ? Seattle's colors are gray and green.
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Unknown The Beautiful Northwest ed. by Krell
The Northwest coast is a land of contrasts. At time it is wild and wave-battered, at other times quiet and restful. All along its length there is variety: long, sandy beaches, steep headlands, lush pasture, rocky covers, patches of deep forest. ? This is a place for photographers, hikers, picnickers, campers, and for those who want nothing more than a few relaxing moments in beautiful, unpeopled surroundings.
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Ursala K. LeGuin The Lathe of Heaven
Hood, immense yet withdrawn, breeding clouds about her head; going northward, the distant Adams, like a molar tooth; and then the pure cone of St. Helens, from whose long gray sweep of slope still farther northward a little bald dome stuck out like a baby looking round its mother's skirt: Mount Rainier. description of the Cascades from Portland
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William L. Mainwaring Exploring the Oregon Coast
Oregon is blessed with a coastline of scenic beauty and variety unmatched on this continent. It's a delightful place, where the Pacific surge washes and sometimes pounds the western edge of our continent. It's a land of storms and sunburns, of wharves and lighthouses, of salt air and fading paint. It's a perfect place for the human psyche to unwind, for workaday tensions to be washed away by the rhythmic cadence of the surf.
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