Arizona’s dry future begins as Colorado River shrinks

Re:Arizona’s dry future begins as Colorado River shrinks by rayiner on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:59PM (#31141176)

Visiting Arizona made me never want to move to Arizona or Nee Mexico. The minute I got there a kind of depression set in. Just the color of the place. After awhile I realized it was because so little was growing, even compared to say somewhere like Wyoming.

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Re:Arizona’s dry future begins as Colorado River shrinks by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday April 24, 2022 @01:00AM (#31141422)

> "Amen. Dutton describes a process of westernization of the perceptions that has had to happen before the West is beautiful to us. You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time."

Wallace Stegner, quoted from:

https://bensonian.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/you-have-to-get-o...

Also worth reading:

https://aarondenham.com/2021/09/04/getting-over-the-color-gr...

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