To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.

Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.

There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.

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.

If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.

Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.