Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to keep from crying and her neck sore from forcing herself not to look down, not to look back.

One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert plant bursting into life after the rain.

The breeze across the desert as the light died was so sweet she could almost drink it.

Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes.

Dawn raced like fire across the savanna.

Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.

Water was how the desert would bring everyone together. The antelope's daily prayer, weighing the mortal need of water with the mortal danger of obtaining it.

I have spent hours and hours watching elephants, and to come to understand what emotional creatures they are...it's not just a species facing extinction, it's massive individual suffering.

Already this sun was pouring its wrath into the blue Indian ocean where swordfish and marlin cruised like silver-blue attenuated warheads in their green-gold depths...

What is the charm in dying when we fully well know that we are not going to get another chance at living?

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

Giving is the highest level of living.

People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.

A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.