Wild Areas

Famous quotes containing the words wild and/or areas:

    Birch boughs enough piled everywhere!
    All fresh and sound from the recent ax.
    Time someone came with cart and pair
    And got them off the wild flowers’ backs.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don’t know—Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel—the quality of philosophy.
    Doris Lessing (b. 1919)