“The moon is the better storyteller for this event. Our ancient craters are smoothed over by erosion and tectonic motion. With no erosion, no wind, and no liquid water on the moon, craters can remain perfectly visible for billions of… — 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
