“ Viewed from a different angle, my uncle's words offered up the rest of my life as an unexpected gift, an opportunity for the most radical improvisation. I could be whatever I wanted to be, as long as… Philip Connors
“ Norman Maclean once wrote that when you work outside of a town for a couple of months you get feeling a lot better than the town and very hostile toward it. Philip Connors
“ That thing some people call boredom, in the correct if elusive dosage, can be a form of inoculation against itself. Once you struffle through that swamp of monotony where time bogs down in excruciatin… Philip Connors
“ The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of… Philip Connors
