There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning. — Craig Childs Desert 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… — Craig Childs Tubes 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… — Craig Childs Age 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… — Craig Childs Mountains 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… — Craig Childs Canyons 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… — Craig Childs Digestive system Copy Share Image
“There are so many of us now that we threaten to devour the world with our touching, starting with the things we… — Craig Childs Time 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… — Craig Childs Canyons 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… — Craig Childs Central park 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… — Craig Childs Extinct 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… — Craig Childs Nature 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.… — Craig Childs Animal 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… — Craig Childs Animals Copy Share Image
“It is as true as breath. It is as important as the words of children. ” — Craig Childs Children Copy Share Image
“Blood, for a mosquito, is a delicacy. They otherwise feed on the nectar of flowers.” — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of… — Craig Childs Abundance Copy Share Image
“The moon is the better storyteller for this event. Our ancient craters are smoothed over by erosion and tectonic motion. With no… — Craig Childs Writing Copy Share Image
There is a drop of blood in the snow before me… The coyote... is in estrus… spurred to let out a bit… — Craig Childs Bits Copy Share Image
Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we… — Craig Childs Clothings Copy Share Image
“Coyotes move within a landscape of attentiveness. I have seen their eyes in the creosote bushes and among mesquite trees. They have… — Craig Childs Animals Copy Share Image
“Now come the floods. They charge down atavistic canyons drinking furiously out of thunderstorms, coming one after the next with vomited boulders… — Craig Childs Canyons Copy Share Image
“This is the yin and yang of the earth, an energetic feedback. What happens below relates directly to what is happening on… — Craig Childs Earth Copy Share Image
“We guard our bodies until they are old and tasteless, when we could have fed ourselves to claw and fur, been literally… — Craig Childs Lion Copy Share Image
