Quotes from Stephen Trimble

What one thinks of any region, while traveling through, is the result of at least three things: what one knows, what one imagines, and how one is disposed [Barry Lopez].

We are belabored by the insistence on the part of our politicians, businessmen and military leaders, and the claque of scriveners who serve them, that 'growth' and 'power' are intrinsic goods, of which we can never have enough, or even too much. As if gigantism were an end in itself. As if a commendable rat were a rat twelve hands high at the shoulders — and still growing. As if we could never have peace on this planet until one state dominates all others [Edward Abbey].

If a pitch pine found Cape Cod to its liking, or a white pine was such an ancient believer in New Hampshire . . . then we ought to be consulting them about home territory [John Hays, "Homing"].

Stefansson was once asked by an Eskimo to whom he was showing a pair of binoculars for the first time whether he could 'see into tomorrow' with them. . . . What the Inuk probably meant was, Are those things powerful enough to see something that will not reach you for another day. . . . which you yourself will not reach for another day [Barry Lopez]?

Thoreau was our suburban coyote [Edward Abbey].