There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manag
Source: Other Lives, in Harper's (New York, July 1973; repr. in Heart's Desire, 1988).
-- Edward Hoagland, (Dec 21 1932-____), US novelist, essayist, nature writer; He frequently writes about animals including lions, turtles and snakes.