"We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted."

“College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.”

“My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.”

“Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?”

“The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.”

“I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid.”

“Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.”

“You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.”

“There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.”

Source : Aldo Leopold, Susan Flader, J. Baird Callicott (1991). “The river of the mother of God and other essays”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr