Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
Not hope that he would be rescued--that was gone. But hope in his knowledge. Hope in the fact that he could learn and survive and take care of himself. Tough hope, he thought that night. I am full of...
But the beauty of the woods, the incredible joy of it is too alluring to be ignored, and I could not stand to be away from it--indeed, still can't--and so I ran dogs simply to run dogs; to be in and p...
The mosquitoes. Tearing at him, clouds of them, the awful, ripping, thick masses of the small monsters trying to bleed him dry.
I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!
Listen to me, he thought. If I were talking out loud, I’d be whining. Derek gets hit and I act like I’m the one getting messed up. It
He’s not stupid, he’s just not observant.
Well, he’d actually never heard anybody say it. But he felt that it should be true. There
Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.
I wish I had a dollar for every hour I've spent in the library, he always says. I have to agree- we'd probably never have to worry about money again.
Had it been just the two of us with the flock, I am sure it would have been a complete disaster. But Louie came with a helper, partner, friend, second brain: a border collie named (he must have wanted...
Change is good, but sometimes leaving things the way they've always been is better.
You can take the man out of the woods, but you can't take the woods out of the man.
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.
I ran from the barn out through the herd to make certain and saw that the coyote was really dead, as was the sheep, but I ran smack into what makes border collies the incredible beings that they are....
Sex
Discoveries happened because they needed to happen. He
Demanding. He turned to see Derek, who was coming up the back of the hill. See the fish—
Blinded
You never beat the game...You go in, take what you need, get out. Never stay too long and never, never try to whip the game. Stay there too long and they figure you out, start chewing at the corners o...