Edward Hoagland
Edward Hoagland
Edward Hoaglandis an American author best known for his nature and travel writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 December 1932
CountryUnited States of America
horse solitude clip
Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?
parent one-day fool
Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.
two kind sanctimonious
There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.
long-ago soldier needs
We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.
country cities people
Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
travel sometimes speed
To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.
dog exercise slave-owners
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days
wise wisdom fun
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.
sports rivers swim
If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.
color snow track
True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
people texan chosen
Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.
men world human-nature
If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the faith in nature which is inherent in the profession to a faith in man-if necessary, man alone in the world.
loneliness avid columns
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.
summer believe doors
Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.