Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.