Best nature & claims Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.”

Ifs World Believe Whole Seems Nature Common Creation Judging Claims Trade Common Sense Revelations Anarchy Fringe Extremism Lunatic Likelihood Giraffe Improbability

Author:Annie Dillard

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture”

Men Culture Nature Claims Victim Feminist Prostitution Criminal Mind Conqueror Outlaw Courtesans

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

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