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" I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. "

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" Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. "

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" That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit. "

" I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry. "

" Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted. "

" Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. "

" Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be. "

" The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. "

Richard Russo

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Writer

" Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false. "

" It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. "

" Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. "

" I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. "

" You can't just let nature run wild. "

" You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth. "

" Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. "

" The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you. "

" Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. "

" I'm a nature bug. "

Donna Karan

Bug

Nature

" The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. "

" The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. "

" I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. "

John Burroughs

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Put

" There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. "

" There's no night without stars. "

" In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. "

" There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. "

" One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. "

" Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. "

" The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. "

" Nature is not human hearted. "

" Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. "

" A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. "

Walt Whitman

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