Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

To achieve patent commercialization success, every inventor must think like a business man

Contentment isn’t something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it’s a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

If you have an outstanding product, world class content, or something else that sets you apart, then you can step back and start thinking about how to promote it.

Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.