“Lewis: You w- you wanna...you wanna talk about the vanishing wilderness?
Bobby: Lewis, listen—what are you so anxious about this?
Lewis: Because they're buildin' a dam across the Cahulawassee River; they're gonna flood a whole valley, Bobby, that's why. Dammit, they're drownin' a river; they're drownin' a river, man.”
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