“Neither a land nor a people ever starts over clean. Country is compact of all its past disasters and strokes of luck–of flood and drouth, of the caprices of glaciers and sea winds, of misuse and disuse and greed and… — John Graves Copy Share Image
“If a man couldn't escape what he came from, we would most of us still be peasants in Old World hovels. But, if, having… — John Graves Copy Share Image
Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading… — John Graves Copy Share Image
If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear. — John Graves Copy Share Image
“Neither a land nor a people ever starts over clean. Country is compact of all its past disasters and strokes of luck–of flood and… — John Graves Copy Share Image
“Some days load themselves with questions whose answers have died, and maybe never mattered hugely” — John Graves Copy Share Image
“Of all the passers-through, the species that means most to me, even more than geese and cranes, is the upland plover, the drab plump… — John Graves Copy Share Image
Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its… — John Graves Copy Share Image
I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew… — John Graves Copy Share Image
“In terms of the outdoors, I and the others like me weren't badly cheated as such cheatings go nowadays, but we were cheated nevertheless.… — John Graves Copy Share Image
