Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.

If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time.

When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.