Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Horses have made civilization possible.

I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory

I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.