Jim Harrison Quotes

A black hole the size of 300 billion stars is gobbling up the M87 galaxy because astronomers gave it a boring name.

How could all this happen when there was an ocean?

Death steals everything except our stories.

Някои хора чуват вътрешните си гласове с голяма яснота и се научават да живеят с това, което са чули. Такива хора полудяват или се превръщат в легенда.

Everyone wishes a measure of mystery in their life that they have done nothing in particular to deserve.

I hope to define my life, whatever is left, by migrations, south and north with the birds and far from the metallic fever of clocks, the self staring at the clock saying, “I must do this.” I can’t tell the time on the tongue of the river in the cool morning air, the smell of the ferment of greenery, the dust off the canyon’s rock walls, the swallows swooping above the scent of raw water.

the natural world seemed to absorb the poison in me.

Everyday I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.

damn the world and its wars, she thought. Those who start the wars never die in them. She packed hastily, had supper with Winnie

With all its eyes the creature world beholds the open, while our eyes are turned in ward,” said

I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.

Fifty years ago I learned to jump off the calendar but I kept getting drawn back on for reasons of greed and my imperishable stupidity.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow
by I don't know what.

I prefer the skyline
of a shelf of books.

"The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense." from The Beast God Forgot to Invent