475 quotes found
“Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with al...”
“Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven, t...”
“That its rough out there and chancy is no surprise. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac. But at the same time we are also created. In the Koran, Allah asks the he...”
“We can stage our own act on the planet-build our cities on its plains, dam its rivers, plant its topsoils-but our meaningful activity scarcely covers the terrain. We do not use the songbirds, for i...”
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
“Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.”
“I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.”
“I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take a deep breath, I open my eyes. Looking, I see there are worms in the horns of the altar like live...”
“You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.”
“If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.”
“Excerpts from Life, Simplified can be found on my website.”
“That, after all, is what the great stories are written about: How people manage to find themselves in love. Well let me just say that how a person falls in love is more important than who they fall...”
“Lou asked point-blank, Can love last? (Rural people get to philosophizing, and will say anything.)Oh, darling! No, not that heart-thumping passion. Give that eighteen months. But its replaced by so...”
“I will never forget the magic I felt the moment I kissed your lips.”
“She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes.”
“Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as ...”
“Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth ...”
“There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.”
“A memory of her father flitted through her consciousness. The time he played a slow, melodic tune on the saxophone in the misty rain of the yard on a summers night, surrounded by the patios twinkli...”
“Ivy! It's a natural disaster! You have to be there!”
