“ For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over. Norman Maclean
“ A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help. Norman Maclean
“ 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. Norman Maclean
“ But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topography that you can look at the earth and see what it would look like without any woods or covering… Norman Maclean
“ 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 raindr… Norman Maclean
“ 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 par… Norman Maclean
“ At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books. Norman Maclean
“ At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. Norman Maclean
“ ... you can love completely without complete understanding.""That I have known and preached." my father said. Norman Maclean
“ In this story of the outside world and the inside world with a fire between, the outside world of little screwups recedes now for a few hours to be taken over by the inside world of blowups, this time… Norman Maclean
“ Somehow it's hard to quit with an odd number of fish, so I wanted one more for four, Norman Maclean
“ It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter w… Norman Maclean
“ 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 by… Norman Maclean
