Knot Quotes by Martha Ostenso

The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of…

— Martha Ostenso

Time passed so much more slowly than space.

— Martha Ostenso

Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it…

— Martha Ostenso

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

— Martha Ostenso

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

— Martha Ostenso

“Work did not destroy the loneliness; work was only a fog in which they moved so that they might not see the loneliness of…

— Martha Ostenso

It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the even tenor…

— Martha Ostenso

once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within…

— Martha Ostenso

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

— Martha Ostenso

a man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness -…

— Martha Ostenso

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

— Martha Ostenso

You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.

— Martha Ostenso

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

— Martha Ostenso

God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too…

— Martha Ostenso

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

— Martha Ostenso