Best Norman Maclean Quotes
- Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out… Best
- Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary death,"… Catastrophe
- I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me. Inspirational
- At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love… Clear
- ...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. Becomes
- At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. Clear
- Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to… Brother
- Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship. Became
- Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even… Ahead
- A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help. Help
- I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we… All
- Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect Become Perfect
- As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by… Able
- Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. All
- A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us. Each