53 Quotes About Nature-writing
- Author Norman Maclean
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I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.
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- Author Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions
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- Author Grey Owl
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We must remember that in the end nature does not belong to us, we belong to it.
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- Author Jim Harrison
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I wish Barry Lopez would write novels.from "Conversations with Jim Harrison
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- Author Paul Doiron
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Nature will forgive humankind just about anything, and what it won’t forgive I hope never to witness.
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- Author Brian Doyle
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We sit on park benches and beaches and couches and hilltops, listening and dreaming seemingly to no particular purpose. But isn't it often the case that when we cease to move and think, we see and hear and understand a great deal?
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- Author Geoff Dyer
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...in Dillard it's the comedy of rapture. Or at least it's a comedy that permits prose and thought to soar while inoculating the rapturous against the three ills of which nature writers should live in permanent dread: preciousness, reverence, and earnestness...
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- Author Tim Dee
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Science makes discoveries when it admits to not knowing, poetry endures if it looks hard at real things. Nature writing, if such a thing exists, lives in this territory where science and poetry might meet. It must be made of both; it needs truth and beauty.
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- Author Lynn Schooler
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In sum, it does not matter if we are forgotten; what matters is the effect we have on those around us and those who come after us. What matters is how our own lives affect the larger, perpetual community of the living.
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