Edward HoaglandMen greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run. ✨ Edward Hoagland (1999). Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Li… ▶376LifeReflection
Edward HoaglandThe question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying. ✨ Edward Ho… ▶333DeathThought
Edward HoaglandCity people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better lif… ▶346HumanityLifeThought
Edward HoaglandCountry people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the sam… ▶291HumanityLifeThought
Edward HoaglandLand of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? ✨ Edward Hoagland (2… ▶281Sadness
Edward HoaglandAnimals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The … ▶304HumanityLifeTime
Edward HoaglandTrue solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow. ✨ Edward Hoagland (1992). Balancing acts: essays338Truth
Edward HoaglandMan is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity. ✨ Edward Hoagland (1999). Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life, p.41, Rowman & Littlefield… ▶273LifeReflection
Edward HoaglandA mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller. ✨ Edward Hoagland (2014). On Nature: Selected Essays, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield253Reading
Edward HoaglandTo relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile b… ▶265Reflection
Edward HoaglandAnimals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. ✨ Edward Hoagland (1995… ▶309Philosophy
Edward HoaglandThere aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years. ✨ Edward Hoagland… ▶309LoveTime
Edward HoaglandNo birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache. ✨ Edward Hoagland (2011). Sex and the River Styx, p.74, Chelsea Green Publishing244Life
Edward HoaglandIf a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river yo… ▶234LifeTime
Edward HoaglandThere often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persu… ▶182HumanityPolitics
Edward HoaglandMen often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. ✨ Edward Hoagland (1999). Tigers & Ice: Ref… ▶2310DeathLifeReflection
Edward HoaglandIn order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ✨ Edwar… ▶208Humanity
Edward HoaglandSuicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and cha… ▶208DeathLifeLove
Edward HoaglandIf a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the … ▶154HumanityThought
Edward HoaglandSilence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. ✨ E… ▶2110Time
Edward HoaglandThere is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in… ▶144HumanityLifeTime
Edward HoaglandMany divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, an… ▶199Life
Edward HoaglandIt's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of… ▶137Death
Edward HoaglandIt would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live. ✨ Edward Hoagland (1999). Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life… ▶138LifeReflection
