When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk… — Edward Hoagland Animals Copy Share Image
Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who… — Edward Hoagland American writer Copy Share Image
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature… — Edward Hoagland Adolescence Copy Share Image
The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often… — Edward Hoagland Accepting Copy Share Image
Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop. — Edward Hoagland Cities Copy Share Image
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat… — Edward Hoagland Boat Copy Share Image
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she… — Edward Hoagland Cages Copy Share Image
Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse? — Edward Hoagland Clip Copy Share Image
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or… — Edward Hoagland Agitation Copy Share Image
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is… — Edward Hoagland Center stage Copy Share Image
Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans. — Edward Hoagland Chosen Copy Share Image
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for… — Edward Hoagland Animal Copy Share Image
Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the… — Edward Hoagland Communication Copy Share Image
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long… — Edward Hoagland Hug Copy Share Image
Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity. — Edward Hoagland Activity Copy Share Image
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all. — Edward Hoagland Childhood Copy Share Image
“We have in America "The Big Two-Hearted River" tradition: taking your wounds to the wilderness for a cure, a conversation, a rest,… — Edward Hoagland Nature Copy Share Image
Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in… — Edward Hoagland Cities Copy Share Image
To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process. — Edward Hoagland Process Copy Share Image
No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache. — Edward Hoagland Clarinet Copy Share Image
Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. — Edward Hoagland Competition Copy Share Image
Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going… — Edward Hoagland Back doors Copy Share Image
Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents. — Edward Hoagland Events Copy Share Image
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and… — Edward Hoagland Appreciated Copy Share Image
“The whistling dawn, the sussurration of the leaves, a honking goose, and then a sentimental confab at the Solid Rock Gospel Church… — Edward Hoagland Blindness Copy Share Image
