A Mountain With A Wolf On It

Our Loneliness Makes Us Avid Column Readers These Days.

In Order To Really Enjoy A Dog, One Doesn't Merely Try To Train Him To Be Semi-human. The Point Of It Is To Open Oneself To The Possibility Of Becoming Partly A Dog.

Indeed, If "biology Is Chemistry With History," As Somebody Has Said, Then Nature Writing Is Biology With Love.

Animals Are Stylized Characters In A Kind Of Old Saga - Stylized Because Even The Most Acute Of Them Have Little Leeway As They Play Out Their Parts.

The Novelist Screws Up His Courage In Order To Invest Another Two Or Three Years In Another Attempt To Float A Boat Of Original Design Upon An Invented Ocean.