Famous quotes containing the words harris, writer and/or observations:
“I often sit back and think, “I wish I’d done that,” and find out later that I already have.”
—Richard Harris (b. 1932)
“The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled “a contemplative man’s recreation,” introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist’s observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man’s recreation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)