As if my whole life up to that time had somehow been safe and now I would ruin all that because, you know, catamarans flip over.
Unstable, the
Live in sound, always in noise. Perhaps because it is so constant, the art of listening to them falls off, and so many things they say are not heard, are swallowed in the overall
You want to stay hungry...to learn. You get full, you get sleepy, lazy; you get lazy, you don't learn.
When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.
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...
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 began to understand that they are not wrong or right—they just are. Wolves don't know they are wolves. That's a name we have put on them, something we have done. I do not know how wolves think of th...
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...
And doing what is good for you is always the worst thing. Even if it works out all right in the end, it is the worst thing when it first happens—just the way things that seem good for you can turn out...
All the luck in the world has to come every year, in every part of every year, or there is not a harvest and then the luck, the bad luck will come and everything we are, all that we can ever be, all t...
Hundred-mile
Berries he would have to eat the gut cherries again
Will, have you been paying attention to the number of times we had to go one passage farther than the first left?I've been trying to. Why?This place is really getting to me. I don't like the idea of s...
While now and then you hear somebody talking about how . . . beautiful and elegant the predator-prey relationship is, how natural and proper the death of the prey is, it is usually so much misundersto...
Simple. Keep it simple. I am Brian Robeson. I have been in a plane crash. I am going to find some food. I am going to find some berries. He
Perhaps when I am grown I will not know anything. Perhaps that is the way it works, the way it is with growing. When you grow, you start to unlearn things.
In measured time forty-seven days had passed since the crash. Forty-two days, he thought, since he had died and been born as the new Brian. When the plane had come and gone it had put him down, gutted...
If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners.
I know that my life on boats has been about this: not the sailing or the sea so much as learning about self. And almost every boat I have had has taught me something.