"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: The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest

A 34-year-old quote, but evergreen.