Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling… — Edward Hoagland Genocide Copy Share Image
Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or… — Edward Hoagland Air Copy Share Image
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both… — Edward Hoagland Better life Copy Share Image
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising… — Edward Hoagland Automobile Copy Share Image
We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a… — Edward Hoagland Alaskans Copy Share Image
Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation.… — Edward Hoagland Cancer Copy Share Image
It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live. — Edward Hoagland Chaos Copy Share Image
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked… — Edward Hoagland Bears Copy Share Image
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway… — Edward Hoagland Animal Copy Share Image
True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow. — Edward Hoagland Birdsong Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers. — Edward Hoagland Kind Copy Share Image
It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and… — Edward Hoagland Atheism Copy Share Image
If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they… — Edward Hoagland Alright Copy Share Image
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is… — Edward Hoagland Becoming Copy Share Image
There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her… — Edward Hoagland Believe Copy Share Image
If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife. — Edward Hoagland Blades Copy Share Image
If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go… — Edward Hoagland Court Copy Share Image
If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have… — Edward Hoagland Faith Copy Share Image
Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love. — Edward Hoagland Biology Copy Share Image
A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.... — Edward Hoagland Inspirational Copy Share Image
