It was a strange feeling, holding the rifle. It somehow removed him from everything around him. Without the rifle he had to fit in, to be part of it all, to understand it and use it - the woods, all o...
I couldn’t change the wind but perhaps I could reduce the effect of the wind on the boat.
How could he? The
He was out of food, but he could look tomorrow and he could build a signal fire tomorrow and get more wood tomorrow . . . The
He moved to the trees. Where the bark was peeling from the trunks it lifted in tiny tendrils, almost fluffs. Brian plucked some of them loose, rolled them in his fingers. They seemed flammable, dry an...
He had read somewhere that wolves could eat up to twenty pounds of meat in a single meal and he thought the dog was coming close. She . . . just . . . kept . . . eating.
Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve 'This Side of Wild' Excerpt
A person can do practically anything for a short time if he doesn't think he has to do it for life.
Unstable, the
He wasn’t sure if it was good and clean or not. He
About four inches down, he suddenly came into a small chamber in the cool-damp sand and there lay eggs, many eggs, almost perfectly round eggs the size of table tennis balls, and he laughed then becau...
You want to stay hungry...to learn. You get full, you get sleepy, lazy; you get lazy, you don't learn.
The book is that is the good one is Woodsong and we are trying to finish it.
It was, all in all, a grand example of interspecies lack of cooperation and the further illustration that might makes right. I stayed in the rest area, in my car, for another half an hour, until every...
Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insan...
If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you’ll come to bad luck.
I have seen their humor and anger expressed in natural terms and learned more about them as dogs and not just extensions of human training.
I am full of tough hope
He was not the same. The plane passing changed him, the disappointment cut him down and made him new. He was not the same and would never be again like he had been. That was one of the true things, th...
For those of you who wish to get a feel for it, get in the car and bring it up to fifty miles an hour and then stick your head and arms outside and, while driving, try to fold up a simple bath towel i...