Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another, or even from one lake to another anywhere. A canoe trip has become simply a rite of oneness with certain terrain, a diversion off the field, an art performed not because it is a necessity but because there is value in the art itself.

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

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

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

On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m going to be able to get started. And the routine of doing this six days a week puts a little drop in a bucket each day, and that’s the key. Because if you put a drop in a bucket every day, after three hundred and sixty-five days, the bucket’s going to have some water in it.

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone.