We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“They run amuck; I let them. Pride of lions in the yard. Stare and they burn a hole in your retina. A… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies...A child or a book or a painting or a...garden planted. Something your hand touched… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Don’t ask for everything on your platter,” she said. “Be satisfied with a wrinkled pea, for there’s another world we’re all going… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“She was a woman with a broom or a dust- pan or a washrag or a mixing spoon in her hand. You… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What did the others give to each other? Nothingness. Granger stood looking back with Montag. “Everyone must leave something behind when he… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Lilacs on a bush are better than orchids. And dandelions and devil grass are better! Why? Because they bend you over and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.' — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
