“The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.” Quote by Terry Tempest Williams
“It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.” LongFactsAbleShareCreaturesGlobesSentimentalLiteral Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
“We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage.” NeedsImportantCitiesOur LivesContactWildernessCivilizedHeritageCompelledRenounce Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
“The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.” MenSocietyCapacityOur SocietyParadox Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
“A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.” YearsMeanBookMomentsHappensMovingWaitingModernTelevisionCommunicationNeededProgramAvailableMeans Of Communication Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
“In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.” EyeAll ThingsCatKittenFelineFunny CatPurringCat DogPurring CatsPets CatsCat LoveBlack CatHumans And DogsCute CatKitty CatHerding CatsCat EyeCat And Mouse Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
“Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.” WayWantGivingYearsHumansMayDifficultForgetPleasureTeachReturnOffersPerceptionIndifferentSublimeRelaxationBreezeYear OneInsouciance Author:Barry Lopez
“We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.” Universe Author:Barry Lopez
“Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.” ThinkingLongStillsFeelingsLightFallGrowsAnimalLandSummerSpringBreathsSouthBreathingComes And GoesDepartureMigration Book:Arctic Dreams Source: Arctic Dreams
“We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.” WorldHelpingCoursesCallingAuthorityOver ItSave The World Author:Barry Lopez
“One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.” MenDreamNatureRegretCivilizationExtremesLive Without Regrets Author:Barry Lopez