Tim Cahill Quotes & Sayings

“Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.”

“The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.”

“Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.”

“Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.”

“Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.”

“In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.”

“My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.”

“I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.”

“Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it.”

“You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.”