Pacific Northwest Quotes

• Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Thinking, Breathing, Rivers

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• I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.

  Kristin Hannah

  Girl, Pacific

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• The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Energy, Dams, Inexpensive

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• Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me.

  Brenda Strong

  Girl, Growing Up, Tree

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• I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Art, Rain, Native American

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Jonathan Raban

  Mistake, Cities, People

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• It's hard not to fall in love with Seattle on a beautiful summer's day.

  Robert Spector

  Beautiful, Summer, Falling In Love

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• The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

  Elizabeth George

  Islands, Location, Novel

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• In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.

  Mario Batali

  Growing Up, Weekend, Simple

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January, 2004.

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• Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure into songs, and Iowa. "February" is very much about New England. "Mortal City" is Philadelphia. The whole album is this anthropomorphized landscape where the metaphors live in this geography.

  Dar Williams

  Song, New York, Ocean

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'

  Melinda Gates

  Thinking, Risk, Backyards

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