How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.

I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.

Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.

Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.