I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape.
The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress. - Peter Matthiessen
The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.
- Peter Matthiessen
Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past.… - Peter Matthiessen
Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past.…
The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found w… - Peter Matthiessen
The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found w…
Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be. - Peter Matthiessen
Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.
The purpose of our life is to help others through it. - Peter Matthiessen
The purpose of our life is to help others through it.
In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us. - Peter Matthiessen
In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the… - Peter Matthiessen
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the…
If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us. - Peter Matthiessen
If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us.
The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "mea… - Peter Matthiessen
The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "mea…
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