'He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

I guess there are never enough books.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.