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.

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.

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

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness