Norman Maclean

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#friends #friendship #philosophy #silence #friendship

I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#nature-writing #inspirational

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. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#life

A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#survive #universe #volunteer #men

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. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#geology #idaho #landscape #mountains #nature

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#eventually #into #merge #river #runs

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#complete #complete understanding #completely #elude #everything