I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another, or even from one lake to another anywhere. A canoe trip has become simply a rite of oneness with certain terrain, a diversion off the field, an art performed not because it is a necessity but because there is value in the art itself.

Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

Taking things from one source is plagiarism taking things from several sources is research.

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness