Norman Maclean
Norman Maclean
Norman Fitzroy Macleanwas an American author and scholar noted for his books A River Runs Through It and Other Storiesand Young Men and Fire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 December 1902
CountryUnited States of America
volunteer helping mystery
A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.
rivers water hard
A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.
death young reach-out
Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.
missing fantasy willing
Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.
sea fishing dry
He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.
lifetime asks
How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.
water
I am haunted by waters.
giving needs helping
Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.
moving mountain needed
I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.
idaho mountain world
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.
father sea fishing
If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.
silence enemy silent
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
beautiful father able
As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word "beautiful.
cases hardest behinds
The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.