“But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not stir them up, and you seem eager to drag out all the sad ...”

“Southerners had a long tradition of looking for religious significance in even the most humble forms of nature, and I always preferred the explanations of folklore to the icy interpretations of sci...”

“Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.”

“The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.”

“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a par...”

“It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.”

“It was a though wed been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even...”

“T.H. moved through the forest like the melody of a well-known song, in perfect harmony with his surroundings.”

“You should never turn down the offer of another mans story, the fox persisted, moving off a little further into the trees ahead. Stories are the only thing that separates us from the animals after ...”

“The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.”