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• If 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 you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.

  Edward Hoagland

  Sports, Journey, Rivers

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• Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

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  People, Texan, Chosen

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.

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  Night, Two, House

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• The 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.

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  God, Dying, Earth

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

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  Ocean, Order, Years

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

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  Sports, Men, Competition

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.33, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Animals 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.

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  Character, Animal, Play

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• There 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 the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

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  Summer, Cities, Age

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• If 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 talker unhappy.

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  Crazy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

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  Opportunity, Land, Tribes

  Edward Hoagland (2014). “On Nature: Selected Essays”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

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  Musical, Panache, Clarinet

  Edward Hoagland (2011). “Sex and the River Styx”, p.74, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

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  Loneliness, Avid, Columns

  Edward Hoagland (1983). “The tugman's passage”, Viking Pr

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• Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

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  Summer, Believe, Doors

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

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  Running, Women, Hands

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.34, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

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  Cities, People, Tolerance

  Edward Hoagland (1982). “The tugman's passage”, Random House Incorporated

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• Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.

  Edward Hoagland

  Country, Cities, People

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• We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.

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  Long Ago, Soldier, Needs

  Edward Hoagland (1973). “Walking the Dead Diamond River”, Random House (NY)

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• Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?

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  Horse, Solitude, Meter

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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