Quotes by : Peter Matthiessen

There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and....

Around about now, young John Owen comes out of the shack lugging my old musket from the War. At six years....

In his first summers, forsaking all his toys, my son would stand rapt for nearly an hour in his sandbox....

In the book of Job, the Lord demands, “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?”“I....

I sit in meditation…and soon all sounds, and all one sees and feels, take on imminence, an immanence,....

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted,....

After midday, the rain eased, and the Land Rover rode into Pokhara on a shaft of storm light. Next day....

The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my....

Transfixed by the bright gaze of a lizard, I become calm. This stone on which the lizard lies was under....

Zen has been called the "religion before religion," which is to say that anyone can practice, including....