In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Some people find fall depressing, others hate spring. I've always been a spring person myself. All that growth, you can feel Nature… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs To the silent wilderness Where the soul need… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The thing about her is, she’s good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Neutrinos, they are very small. They have no charge and have no mass And do not interact at all. The earth is… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
