There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

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

A writer's work is to witness things.

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

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