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Nature Quotes by Arundhati Roy

17 Nature quotes by Arundhati Roy

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Arundhati Roy’s verses on the natural world are steeped in vivid description and a quiet urgency. Seventeen pieces showcase her ability to fuse poetic sensibility with a call for ecological awareness, making each line feel both beautiful and purposeful.

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Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

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“painted in weather-colors now. With brushes dipped in nature’s palette. Mossgreen. Earth-brown. Crumbleblack”

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“We need an updated insurance plan against our won basic natures”

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“In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said.”

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“How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market"…

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“I use the word love loosely, and only because my vocabulary is unequal to the task of describing the precise nature of…

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There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess…

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“Perverted quality; Moral perversion; The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin; Both the elect and the non-elect came into…

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“She described how, when her brother’s body was found in a field and brought home, his fists, clenched in rigor mortis, were…

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“White-walled once. Red-roofed. But painted in weather-colors now. With brushes dipped in nature’s palette. Mossgreen. Earth-brown. Crumbleblack”

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“In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every person that's walking down…

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Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little…

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The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so…

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I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people…

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“The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively…

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“It wasn't what lay at the end of her road that frightened Ammu as much as the nature of the road itself.…

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“Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth…

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Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

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Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

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Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is…

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I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was…

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It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

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I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

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The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

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But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there…

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Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really…

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“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to…

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“stilts, the ground floors given over to parking. It’s a good idea in this car-maddened city,”

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“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that…

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