The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen.

The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.