“If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your thoughts, much less stimulate your spirit. It's different if you fish. The surface of the water tells a story.” IfsDifferentStoriesSpiritWaterSeaRiversFishesSurfaceBoatLakesFishingMoose Book:Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir Source: Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir
“The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'.” WayHumansEnoughStoriesEarthScienceFoundSunGrowingProgressPlanetsCapableExpectationsRoundsSurfaceContraryRingsPhrasesDestroyingDishesDrsMouldBacteriaHuman KnowledgeSpacecraft Author:Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart
“I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsHumansBookStoriesFeelingsRealityReadingMy OwnBehindsFantasyConditionsSurfaceGapsHuman ConditionFantasy And Reality Author:Signe Baumane