Edward Hoagland Quotes

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• In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

  Edward Hoagland

  Dog, Nature, Silly

  Edward Hoagland (1976). “Red Wolves and Black Bears”, Random House Incorporated

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• Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

  Edward Hoagland

  Life, Divorce, Men

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.

  Edward Hoagland

  Running, Hurt, Animal

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.

  Edward Hoagland

  Travel, Sometimes, Speed

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

  Edward Hoagland

  Health, Sleep, Silence

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

  Edward Hoagland

  Color, Snow, Track

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

  Edward Hoagland

  Animal, Men, Risk

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.41, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.

  Edward Hoagland

  Mountain, Littles

  Edward Hoagland (2014). “On Nature: Selected Essays”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A writer's work is to witness things.

  Edward Hoagland

  Witness

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.9, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

  Edward Hoagland

  Love, Sleep, Knives

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• There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

  Edward Hoagland

  Love, Believe, Past

  Edward Hoagland (1993). “The Courage of Turtles”, The Lyons Press

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• Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.

  Edward Hoagland

  Parent, One Day, Days Off

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• There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.

  Edward Hoagland

  Two, Kind, Sanctimonious

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• Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

  Edward Hoagland

  Funny, Life, Country

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

  Edward Hoagland

  Religion, Atheism, Vivid

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• There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.

  Edward Hoagland

  Wise, Wisdom, Fun

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• Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.

  Edward Hoagland

  Mountain, Lions, Paws

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• Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.

  Edward Hoagland

  Cancer, Heart, Suicidal

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.29, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the faith in nature which is inherent in the profession to a faith in man-if necessary, man alone in the world.

  Edward Hoagland

  Men, World, Human Nature

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

  Edward Hoagland

  Children, Suicidal, Would Be

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.35, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.

  Edward Hoagland

  Writing, Chemistry, Biology

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.9, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

  Edward Hoagland

  Childhood, Periods

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• To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days

  Edward Hoagland

  Dog, Exercise, Slave Owners

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• The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.

  Edward Hoagland

  Life, Disappointment, Loss

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• City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

  Edward Hoagland

  Country, Time, Future

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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