“Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“The desire of water is scribed across the desert like graffiti, until all that is left of the desert is water… In the scream… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“Like any stage of the hydrologic process, we have our own peculiarities, our organs making us nothing more than water pools or springs of… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“The elk that you glimpse in the summer, those at the forest edge, are survivors of winter, only the strongest. You see one just… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“Water in flood means exactly what it says. It has no hypocrisy. Even as it murders, it leaves life behind and carves elegant, intricate… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
On numerous visits to Manhattan, I have found myself poking around the city trying to find a moment of quiet and once located a… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“They may not become extinct immediately, but being pushed out of decaying or destroyed habitats eventually takes its toll. The concept is known as… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“A trademark of something that works well, the cat body has hardly changed since its inception. Like with today's cats, their digestive systems could… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“This is not wilderness for designation or for a park. Not a scenic wilderness and not one good for fishing or the viewing of… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“There are so many of us now that we threaten to devour the world with our touching, starting with the things we adore most.… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“Blood, for a mosquito, is a delicacy. They otherwise feed on the nectar of flowers.” — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
