It will be like trying to chop down a sequoia.

It's hard to believe he relied on what others told him. It's clear he is a decisive person who kept his own counsel, listened to others up to a point, but made his own decisions.

In the current environment, it's fashionable to accuse departing executives of misconduct in an effort to avoid paying their severance.

Don't leave until you've been paid. Or else, you'll be coming to visit me.

We're trying to set this up in anticipation of the funds that will be coming in. We're not naively thinking the money is coming soon, but if it comes in the fall or the winter, we want to have this organization together.

We called out to it a couple of times trying to get it to lift its head so we could take its picture. He was so engrossed in eating, and when he got done he just ambled off down the railroad ties and into the woods.