Lydia Millet Quotes
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Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country's largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state's gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin.
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Historically, grizzlies ranged from Alaska to Mexico, with at least 50,000 bears living in the western half of the contiguous United States. With European colonization, the bears were shot, poisoned, and trapped to the brink of extinction.
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We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.'
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In October 2014, for the first time in almost three-quarters of a century, a gray wolf was seen loping along the forested North Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. She had walked hundreds of miles, probably from Wyoming or Idaho.
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You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced!
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I don't tend to picture my characters as actors and actresses.
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I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil.
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I'm for any woman who loves sloths.
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At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.
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My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.
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Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein.
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In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States.
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In December 2011, a wild gray wolf set foot in California, the first sighting in almost a century. He'd wandered in from Oregon, looking for a mate.
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At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time.
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The male domination and chauvinism of the comics form is either being wittily lampooned in 'Watchmen' or handily perpetuated, depending on whom you ask.
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People who are obsessed amuse me.
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Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.
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African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two.
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I love irony.
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It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.
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If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.
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L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.
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I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.
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We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.