Quotes About Peter Matthiessen

Webster said, ''Time them skeeters get done with that old man, his French blood will be all gone and he will speak American as good as we do.

Small bits of life crawled and flew about the ward on ancient business.

The wildwood brings on mild nostalgia, not for home or place, but for lost innocence—the paradise lost that, as Proust said, is the only paradise.

supposed to be the shrine of democracy [Mount Rushmore] but really is the shrine of deceit . . . a desecration of a sacred spot, stolen from us in violation of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868.