Quotes by Norman Maclean

Norman Maclean

…life every now and then becomes literature…as if life had been made and not happened.

Literature

Made

Now And Then

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

Helping

Mystery

Volunteer

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

Environmental

Rivers

Water

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.

Idaho

Mountain

World

All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

Art

Fishing

Grace

As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God’s rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word “beautiful.

Able

Beautiful

Father

As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth’s crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.

Biblical

Compassion

Gratitude

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

Elude Us

Elude You

Sunrise

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.

Elude Us

Elude You

Love

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

Book

Rivers

Stories

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Able

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Art

Asks

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Behinds

Believe

Biblical

Book

Brother

Cases

Compassion

Death

Dry

Elude Us

Elude You

Enemy

Enough

Environmental

Exhausted

Fantasy

Father

Feelings

Fishing

Floating

Fly Fishing

Forever

Friendship

Given

Giving

God

Gone

Grace

Gratitude

Hands

Hardest

Haunting

Helping

Idaho

Inspirational

Knowing

Lakes

Lifetime

Lines

Literature

Loneliness

Long

Love

Luck

Made

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Quotes by Norman Maclean

Norman Maclean

…life every now and then becomes literature…as if life had been made and not happened.

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

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

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.

All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God’s rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word “beautiful.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

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.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

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