All of those things–rock and men and river–resisted change, resisted the coming as they did the going. (Mount) Hood warmed and rose slowly, breaking open the plain, and cooled slowly over the plain it buried. The nature of things is resistance to change, while the nature of process is resistance to stasis, yet things and process are one, and the line from inorganic to organic and back is uninterrupted and unbroken.
― William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways: A Journey into America
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