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

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

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.

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

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