Quotes about Lands

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The legacy left by man shall be barren earth — empty buildings
At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each othe — Neil Gaiman, American Gods
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it se — Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
I am no scientist. I explore the neighbourhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up has a frank and forth — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been af — Mindy Kaling
Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty. — Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds a — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Something in me - probably a small, nationalist dwarf part of my brain - something in me would like to feel proud of Dut — Martijn Benders
Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Think of a globe, a revolving globe on a stand. Think of a contour globe, whose mountain ranges cast shadows, whose cont — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this valley, but to keep myse — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even — Aldous Huxley
When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw “the tree with t — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a world that is a long, — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever I — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known s — H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
Great growth comes from loneliness. You have time to develop, dwell in your own mind and go a bit mad. All great people — Charlotte Eriksson
Favorite Quotations.I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.The worth of a book is measured by what you carry — Pat Frayne, Tales of Topaz the Conjure Cat: Part I Topaz and the Evil Wizard & Part II Topaz and the Plum-Gista Stone
We piled aboard the small chopper and after a bit of map pointing to the pilot we lifted off. "I love the RAF," said Jed — Ken Lukowiak, A Soldiers Song: True Stories From The Falklands