“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 handle only flesh. The lesson of the cat is that if you are to become a… — 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 before dusk that summer, standing at the perimeter of the meadow so it can step back to the forest and vanish. You can't help imagining the still, frozen nights behind it, so cold that the slightest… — Craig Childs Copy Share
“Water in flood means exactly what it says. It has no hypocrisy. Even as it murders, it leaves life behind and carves elegant, intricate passages into raw stone, all the while having no debate about its intention. It is the same water that will sit complacently in a hole for months or years, the same arrangement of atoms that flows… — Craig Childs Copy Share
On numerous visits to Manhattan, I have found myself poking around the city trying to find a moment of quiet and once located a hint of it in Central Park during a windless, late-night snowfall. There I stood absolutely still in the lemon glow of the city, a sky full of snow. The city still roared from all sides, a… — Craig Childs Copy Share
“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
