Alan S. Kesselheim quotes:

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

More and more, paddling the Yellowstone feels like that bedside visit, like we are attending to a friend in dire straits, a friend whom we have seen in the full bloom of health, but with whom, now, there is little to say and only our companionship to offer.

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.