Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.

A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.

No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.