Famous quotes containing the words earth and/or life:
“I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of mens beginning to redeem themselves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte saidthe words one didnt have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for ones dignity or survival.”
—Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)