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

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.

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

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

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

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

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.