She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“She must have been freezing, and it filled Pete with gratitude for the no-bullshit people of the earth, the people who knew… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Pa smiled an inward smile. He always took delight in the pure souls of the earth, wherever they shone.” — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
New Zealand is weird. I mean, it does not seem of this earth, not to me. It really is like something made… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me that the death of his grazing land hurt him more, incomparably more than the death of the human race. I… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it's… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“We have traveled. Now you will be the path I will walk I will walk Over you.” — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Well, I think that’s sort of like Eve biting the apple. You were talking about Genesis. I think it’s like that, the crow is… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Because that's what it turned into: in front of a fine painting a viewer stopped looking and started watching, watching is more specific, watching… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“The pleasure almost split me like a baking stuffed tomato. Like my heart swelled and my skin got thinner and thinner in the heat… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.” — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in the Gulf,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“we can proceed in our lives just as easily from love to love as from loss to loss. A good thing to remember in… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“It's early spring, some late or early hour with Orion toppling backward onto the serrated edge of the mountains and not crying out but… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image