Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker

These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being seen globally.

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp...

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We’re constantly working on it at the Clinic and drills like these help us work even closer with the emergency agencies to build a closer, more effective...

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

You know, the chances of there being a nuclear or biological event in Monroe are slim but there is a chance of a chemical disaster simply because of all the industries we have in the...

Cattle once down may be days in dying. They stretch out their necks along the ground, and roll up their slow eyes at longer intervals.

So wide is the range of the scavengers that it is never safe to say, eyewitness to the contrary, that there are few or many in such a place.

I think it went very well. We can always find things to improve, that’s why we do drills.

Death by starvation is slow.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

I think it went very well,

For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God’s world.

There are many areas in the desert where drinkable water lies within a few feet of the surface, indicated by the mesquite and the bunch grass.

Working with Wal-Mart and SAM’S CLUB allows us to directly reach large populations affected by diabetes, many of whom do not know they are at risk for diabetes or possibly even have the disease, …...

From the time that he had first found, himself alone with them, Oliver had felt sure that the animals could come alive again if they wished.

But there is one tree that for the footer of the mountain trails is voiceless; it speaks, no doubt, but it speaks only to the austere mountain heads, to the mindful wind and the watching...

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

There wasn’t one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it’s more of a general preparedness thing. We drill annually because a disaster situation stretches our resources and goes beyond...

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.

To underestimate one’s thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water – there is no help for any of these things.

We try to vary the drills every year to test different parts of our response efforts.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

They felt our system plan worked very well but communications could have been improved,

We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pasture near the old greenhouse and moved it closer to the house.

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.

The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been Monroe.

The demand for rhubarb is still there.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.