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1 " The hunter, as Theodore Roosevelt defined him, a man who fights for the integrity of both his prey and the land that sustained it, is being too often overwhelmed by men concerned mostly with playing dress up and shooting guns. "
― Gary Ferguson , Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone
2 " The great German philosopher Friedrich Schiller was right to claim—as Jane too liked to say—that people are only completely human when they play. "
― Gary Ferguson , The Carry Home
3 " The estimated value of the water filtration and storage services provided by the earth's forests is more than $4 trillion a year; as a corollary, for every 10 percent reduction of forest land, the cost of treating drinking water grow by about 20 percent. "
― Gary Ferguson , Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West
4 " A friend in southern Utah has for years managed great comfort from the thought that on his own death and cremation, the molecules of his body will be released, taken up by hundreds of other life forms. “That’s immortality, brother! "
5 " The grief ran down the highways with me—a mix of tenderness and sorrow that shifted with every passing town, with the far side of every mountain pass, at every place where pavement turned to dirt. "
6 " Larry Wells, at Brigham Young University, hit upon the idea of delivering the birds by air. In what has to be one of the most spectacularly woozy malfunctions ever to happen in the skies above the American Southwest, he found to his horror that when you toss Rhode Island Reds out of a small plane, well, let’s just say the windblast hammers them in the most awful way, leaving lifeless chicken bodies scattered about the sagebrush. "
7 " Physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong,” she recited. “Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn’t mean much. "
8 " The most important thing,” he said, “is to be present in the face of fear. "
9 " what I’d done was allow my own reentry into the physical world. "
