"My good habits: I don’t really watch television. I read a lot. I teach, which makes me think about what makes good wo…"

"As a , I want to deepen my relationship to the natural world. I have no need to dominate nature, just a desire to liv…"

"and I grew up, thirty years apart, in the small town of , situated on the in eastern North Carolina. A life-size port…"

"Vermont sort of demands humility and equanimity. No one really cares if you’re fancy or high achieving, and if you le…"

"Shatter her beauteous breast ye may; The Spirit of England none can slay! Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul's, — Deem…"

"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it not as just so much air, water, and real estate, bu…"

"In the dry places, men begin to dream. Where the rivers run sand, there is something in man that begins to flow. West…"

"For we Americans, though we are the most restless race in the world, with the possible exception of the Bedouins, alm…"

"Chicago is stupefying. It knows no rules, and I know none by which to judge it. It stands apart from all the cities i…"

"Kansas used to believe in Populism and free silver. It now believes in hot summers and a hot hereafter."