Mike Lee

“The frequency with which I greet the people I pass in the street never really occurred to me as anything other than normal. As a kid, not only would one certainly greet your fellow walkers, but one would also wave at fellow drivers, since the odds were good that you knew them. We called this behavior simply being neighborly. A salutation was offered, either vocally or in the form of a gesture, to establish a level of reassurance that we were all in agreement with each other—we wouldn’t commit acts of violence against one another, nor hornswoggling or other chicanery.”
― Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

“Here is a tough fact: According to an NPR/Marist poll at the end of the hearings, a majority of Republicans (54 percent) said they thought he should be approved whether Ford’s allegations were true or not. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by this, coming from a party that slavishly loved their double-impeached, alleged rapist in the White House.”
― Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

“we were absolutely on cloud nine (a figure of speech that is said to have originated in London in 1896, when Sir Ralph Abercromby’s attention coincided with the newly published International Cloud Atlas. The scientific document listed the cumulonimbus as cloud number nine, the tallest possible cloud. I love it—it wasn’t enough to say “I’m on top of a cloud,” but it had to be qualified by specifying that one was on top of the categorically tallest of clouds).”
― Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire