

“An argument ensued about abundance, leisure, work, nature, and what a second girl kept calling 'the American way.' When I asked her what she meant by 'the American way,' she said, 'Basically the destruction of everything--the world, your happiness, your soul, everything. The complete package. Evil and war. That's who we are, Mr. Countryman.' ”
― The Other
― The Other

“The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven.
Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Forse il pericolo che minaccia più gravemente l'evoluzione di un'etica della terra è il fatto che i nostri sistemi educativi ed economici vanno nella direzione opposta a quella che li condurrebbe verso lo sviluppo di un'intensa consapevolezza della terra. L'uomo moderno è separato dalla terra da troppi intermediari e arnesi; non ha un rapporto vitale con essa e per lui "terra" significa solo lo spazio fra una città e l'altra, dove si producono i raccolti. Se lo si lascia libero un giorno in campagna, in un luogo che non sia un campo da golf o un belvedere, si annoierà a morte. Se i raccolti fossero prodotti con l'idroponica e non con l'agricoltura gli andrebbe benissimo e inoltre preferisce i sostituti sintetici del legno, pelle, lana e di altri prodotti naturali della terra. In poche parole, la terra ormai gli va stretta.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander

“Friendship is indispensable to man for the proper function of his memory. Remembering our past, carrying it with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. They are our mirror; our memory; we ask nothing of them but that they polish the mirror from time to time so we can look at ourselves in it.”
― Identity
― Identity
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