“To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.”
― West with the Night
― West with the Night
“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”
― West with the Night
― West with the Night
“To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.”
― The Night Country
― The Night Country
“Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.”
― West with the Night
― West with the Night
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