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• ‟ I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.

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• ‟ I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.

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• ‟ My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.

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• ‟ The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

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• ‟ When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

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• ‟ I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.

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• ‟ I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.

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• ‟ Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

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• ‟ My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.

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• ‟ It saddens me that Christians need to be reminded that awe is owed also to those who disagree with them, who believe otherwise than they do.

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• ‟ I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.

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