Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever.

Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.