“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
