Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

We write to make sense of it all.

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose total experience outdoors probably consists of two overnight hikes and a weekend in the Catskills. But we have just had that confrontation. The one who goes by Pritchard's book is Sid's wife, and I am wary. It is not my expedition. I am a guest here.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.