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“Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer”
“As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I've seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking away and going on with my own human busyness. There is always that choice fo...”
“Nature allows one kind to kill another, it's part of the law ... you wonder if man might not be the most savage of all creatures. He's among the few that preys on nearly every other being, that con...”
“We are nature; we are nature as we munch gum and check the phone; we are nature as we queasily regret our imperfection, turning the glossy page, turning our glossy stomachs; we are nature as we hea...”
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-l...”
“Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.”
“So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The univ...”
“He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain their truths at the risk of death. Epp...”
“I dont care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces intelligence.”
“The mundanes put their faith in their paper money, and when that turns to ash, the world will turn upside down.”
“I was kind of tired, I guess, of knowing people are flesh. Flesh and water.”
“It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by micro...”
“Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.”
“How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and oppression to serve their own ends.”
“Humans and their wars. You call me monster, , but look what you've gone and done to one another! Good riddance to you now and, if I'm lucky, forever. Have your war. I'll have my radish stew.”
“So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?”
“Healing is the initial justification for every upgrade.”
“Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!”
“This world made by humans for themselves is most unfriendly towards humans. What irony.”
