“We think we have looked at a thing sharply until we are asked for its specific features.” …
In praise of the exquisite instrument that channels “the huge chaos of sensations — sensations of temperature, water, force, light.” …
“Some day… there will come a reckoning. The country will discover… that no nation can exist or have any solidity which ignores the land. But it will cost the country dear.” …
“The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait.” …
“Seashells were money before coin, jewelry before gems, art before canvas… To stare into the spiral top of a whelk or cone shell is to see the swirl of the Milky Way.” …
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A lovely reminder that “kindness and kin have the same mother.” …
“Our deceased friends are more really with us than when they were apparent to our mortal part.” …
“Because there is so little opportunity for intimacy in daily life, and because some forms of intimacy (especially if intense) are psychologically impossible for most people, the bulk of the time in serious social life is taken up with playing games.” …
A journey to the abyss between the real world and the ideal world, and a romp across our mightiest bridge between the two. …
“Art is a miracle, superior to the laws.” …
How to sail in the icy sea of uncertainty without sinking. …
Googling “bookstores near me” right now. …
Inside the brain’s secret portal to remembering the future. …
“My conscience of life and eternity is not a mistake, or a loneliness, or a foolishness — but a warm dear love of our pour predicament.” …
“For seeing the sea it’s sometimes better to close one’s eyes.” …
“Our everyday experience does not prepare us to assimilate the gaping hugeness of the Grand Canyon or the crashing grandeur of Niagara Falls. We have no response at the ready; our usual frames of reference don’t fit.” …
“Legends… are bits of fact, or guesses at fact, pressed into the form of a story and flung out into the world as markers of how much ground has been travelled.” …
“That’s the ruling story on this planet. We live suspended between love and ego.” …
“As a writer, you withdraw and disconnect yourself from the world in order to connect to it in the far-reaching way that is other people elsewhere reading the words that came together in this contemplative state.” …
“Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning.” …
On change, the measure of intelligence, the courage to take responsibility for our own lives. …
“Wander where you will over all the world, from every valley seeing forever new hills calling you to climb them, from every mountain top farther peaks enticing you… until you stand one day on the last peak on the border of the interminable sea, stopped by the finality of that.” …
“It is through story that we embrace the great breadth of memory, that we can distinguish what is true, and that we may glimpse, at least occasionally, how to live without despair in the midst of the horror that dogs and unhinges us.” …