“The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no meaning, they are meaning; the mountains are.”

About Peter Matthiessen

Author • American

Peter Matthiessen was an acclaimed American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, and Zen teacher. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he was the only writer to have won the National Book Award in...