76 Quotes by Edward Hoagland

To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.