Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn’t afraid of him. I felt a hunter’s exhilaration and a brotherly feeling. Edward Hoagland Read Quote
Once I climbed into a mountain lion’s cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn. Edward Hoagland Read Quote
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. Edward Hoagland Read Quote
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run. Edward Hoagland Read Quote
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind’s eye the notion of a better life ahead. Edward Hoagland Read Quote
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga – stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. Edward Hoagland Read Quote
The question of whether it’s God’s green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying. Edward Hoagland Read Quote
Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? Edward Hoagland Read Quote
