12 quotes found
“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”
“You can love completely without complete understanding.”
“Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.”
“If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman.""You know more than that," my father said. "He was beautiful.”
“I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.”
“Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.”
“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is tru...”
“I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literaturenot for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean ...”
“Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," ...”
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless rai...”
“When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being something you know added to something you see, in a whole that is different from the sum of its ...”
“I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean...”