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  • #1
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

  • #2
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

  • #3
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #4
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
    Ursula K. LeGuin

  • #5
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #6
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
    Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

  • #7
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #8
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

  • #9
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

  • #10
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #11
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

  • #12
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.”
    Ursula K. LeGuin, The Tombs of Atuan

  • #13
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #14
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

  • #15
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

  • #16
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #17
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #18
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Telling

  • #19
    Erik H. Erikson
    “Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”
    Erik H. Erikson

  • #20
    Erwin Rommel
    “Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. ”
    Erwin Rommel, Rommel: In His Own Words

  • #21
    Erwin Rommel
    “No plan survives contact with the enemy”
    Erwin Rommel

  • #22
    Erwin Rommel
    “Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.”
    Erwin Rommel

  • #23
    John Muir
    “The sun shines not on us but in us.”
    John Muir

  • #24
    John Muir
    “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
    John Muir

  • #25
    John Muir
    “The mountains are calling and I must go.”
    John Muir

  • #26
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #27
    John Muir
    “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
    John Muir

  • #28
    John Muir
    “Going to the woods is going home.”
    John Muir

  • #29
    John Muir
    “Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.”
    John Muir

  • #30
    John Muir
    “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
    John Muir



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