Nature Quotes by Betty Smith

8 Nature quotes by Betty Smith

Betty Smith’s prose often paints the countryside with a storyteller’s warmth. In this eight‑piece selection, she captures the pulse of rural life, giving a quick but vivid sense of place.

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...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only…

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“What had granma Mary Rommely said? "To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or…

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“Johnny had been on earth for thirty-four years. Less than a week ago, he walked on those streets. And now the cup,…

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“You’ll never raise that one,” they told her. “Her color ain’t good. If the good Lord takes her, it will be for…

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Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on…

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And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her.…

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There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it…

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Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth…

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“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have…

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“Several times that day, the name or thought of Papa had come up. And each time, Francie had felt a flash of tenderness instead…

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As long as one can suffer, one is living…live and suffer until life is gone.

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“Sissy told them they were way behind the times; that midwives were things of the past. Besides, she informed them proudly, she had no…

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“Why, Mrs McGarrity's all right. Mr McGarrity's all right, too. Only I guess they aren't all right to each other.”

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“I drink because I don't stand a chance and I know it. I couldn't drive a truck and I couldn't get on the cops…

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“Pipe dreams, he thought to himself, even while he was telling her about his dream winnings. But oh, how wonderful, he thought, if everything…

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“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and…

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It takes a lot of doing to die.

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“She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.”

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...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the…

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People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

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“Hildy O’Dair is old for her age,” she thought. “It’s like powder was sprinkled on her yellow hair. But she’s not much older than…

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“One day they’re babies in buggies and the next day they’re in here taking picks. Kids grow up quick in this neighborhood.”

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“If she never had any lovers, she kicks herself around when the change comes, thinking of all the fun she could have had, didn’t…

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