If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.

- John Graves

I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Souther…

- John Graves

You notice. And noticing, you live.

- John Graves

Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either ca…

- John Graves

Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or dragging your boat through tr…

- John Graves