"Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true w..."
- Norman Maclean
"Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship."
"At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear."
"Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," pos..."
"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..."
"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..."
"If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman.""You know more than that," my father said. "He was beautiful."
"You can love completely without complete understanding."
"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."
"At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear"