"Writers write into a silence that can linger for a long time." — Laurence Gonzales Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
"Fiction, no matter the form, allows you to live a thousand meaningful experiences and relationships that you could never have in real life. Getting invested in a fictional world means you have a wonderful imagination, a big heart, and the capacity for endless creativity. No one can say anything bad about that." — Sam Maggs The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks
"…I looked straight into bronze-colored bobcat eyes and held my breath, for longer than I knew I could. After two moments (his and mine) that were surely not equal—for a predator must often pass hours without an eyeblink, while a human can grow restless inside ten seconds—we broke eye contact." — Barbara Kingsolver Small Wonder
"You encounter an animal like this, and it is so vivid it detaches from time." — Craig Childs The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
"The desert changed instantly. It turned from stones to coyotes." — Craig Childs The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
"The dog is gone. We miss him. When the doorbell rings, no one barks. When we come home late, there is no one waiting for us. We still find his white hairs here and there around the house and on our clothes. We pick them up. We should throw them away. But they are all we have left of him. We don’t throw them away. We have a wild hope—if only we collect enough of them, we will be able to put the dog back together again." — Lydia Davis Can't and Won't, "The Dog Hair"
"It gave me the stare of a cat, disinterested but true." — Craig Childs The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
"The cat speaks in symbols." — Craig Childs The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
"It’s not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and yes, beauty to people’s lives." — Don Norman
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs
"Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent." — Joe Sparano
"Design is where science and art break even." — Robin Mathew
"Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style." — Massimo Vignelli
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." — Antoine De Saint-Exupery Airman's Odyssey
"The earth without art is just eh." — Unknown
"We click the shutter release, only to have our work instantly become a part of the past—moments frozen in time, just as droplets of water freeze onto a growing icicle." — Nikki Smith
"Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph." — Robert Heinecken
"One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill." — Edward Abbey A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
"To do good, you actually have to do something." — Yvon Chouinard American Express commercial
"I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a ‘surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow’. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon." — Edward Abbey A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
