I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity. — Peter Heller Creativity Copy Share Image
Loss is universal. I've lost grandparents that I dearly adored, lost animals that were like brothers to me. Many of us have… — Peter Heller Animals Copy Share Image
“I had painted a lot of landscapes, had stood before many while they burned their remote beauty into my skin, but had… — Peter Heller Beauty Copy Share Image
“In the November 2006 issue of Science, a report by an international team of scientists studying a vast amount of data gathered… — Peter Heller Conservation Copy Share Image
“Took the end of the world to make us kings for a day.” — Peter Heller End of the world Copy Share Image
“Dusk was moving over the water with a stillness that turned half the world to glass. The wall of mountains had gone… — Peter Heller Dark water Copy Share Image
If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed. — Peter Heller Consumed Copy Share Image
“How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome… — Peter Heller Clear Copy Share Image
Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make… — Peter Heller Around the corner Copy Share Image
“Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations. That's… — Peter Heller Bible Copy Share Image
“If we all knew what was coming, maybe we wouldn’t even stick around for it. Time present and time future.” — Peter Heller Time Copy Share Image
“So crows must spend a lot of the day wondering what they are supposed to do now, what they are here for,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Yes, I love poetry, both to read and to write it. A first love. — Peter Heller First love Copy Share Image
“The most indisputable beauty may be the one that people cannot ever touch. That God exists up there somehow, in the peaks… — Peter Heller Beauty Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6. — Peter Heller Always Copy Share Image
“There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to talk… — Peter Heller Beauty Copy Share Image
“What it is about painting, how it can hit people exactly like music, and hit people so differently.” — Peter Heller Music Copy Share Image
“I would be moving in the cold of the settling evening, the few stars in the chasm overhead, the only way I… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. — Peter Heller Being true Copy Share Image
“You can't metabolize the loss. It is in the cells of your face, your chest, behind the eyes, in the twists of… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“She must have been freezing, and it filled Pete with gratitude for the no-bullshit people of the earth, the people who knew… — Peter Heller Gratitude Copy Share Image
“He's a cocky SOB. He knew the Nick Adams Stories. Probably a frustrated English major who graduated from college qualified to drive… — Peter Heller College Copy Share Image
