"The smell of the ocean was stronger now, rank and enveloping, as if the bottom of the sea had turned over and littered the shore with its dead."

"We do not speak. We have gone down along the side of the river — slowly, as if we were climbing — towards t…"

"Why do we see dead people? What function can a troll on a mountain ridge possibly serve? There is no easy a…"

"In this embrace, in the essential unity of God, are all inner spirits one with God in loving transport, and…"

"I soon found that the Sioux language was quite limited in the scope of its usefulness, but that the sign la…"

"By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an ex…"

"He was the patriarch of American lovers of mountains, one who had not only a passion for the splendours of …"