Nature Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

— Margaret Atwood

“The Eyes of God run over all the earth. Because”

— Margaret Atwood

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

— Margaret Atwood

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

— Margaret Atwood

“But maybe he was destructive by nature since he messed up every girl he touched”

— Margaret Atwood

“Something about a bunch of trees made people think they could cut loose. “Wherever there’s Nature, there’s assholes,” he said cheerfully.”

— Margaret Atwood

Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.

— Margaret Atwood

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas…

— Margaret Atwood

“I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.”

— Margaret Atwood

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

— Margaret Atwood

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to…

— Margaret Atwood

“Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he’d been flattered at…

— Margaret Atwood

Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the…

— Margaret Atwood

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which…

— Margaret Atwood

As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without…

— Margaret Atwood

“Nature demands variety, for men. It stands to reason, it's a part of the procreational strategy. It's Nature's Plan. Women know that…

— Margaret Atwood

Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates…

— Margaret Atwood

“Too friendly, too eager to be on message, man is obsolete, dooming ourselves to extinction, restore the balance of nature and babble…

— Margaret Atwood

“listen. the leaves no longer rustle, the wind no longer sighs, our hearts no longer beat. They've fallen silent. Fallen, as if…

— Margaret Atwood

“Then the Alumni Association man cleared his throat and gave out with a pious spiel about Winifred Griffen Prior, saint on earth.…

— Margaret Atwood

“...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed…

— Margaret Atwood

“It means you can’t cheat Nature,” he says. “Nature demands variety, for men. It stands to reason, it’s part of the procreational…

— Margaret Atwood

“What she read was a series of short connected lyrics, “Isis in Darkness.” The Egyptian Queen of Heaven and Earth was wandering…

— Margaret Atwood

“Why interesting and important? Because women are interesting and important in real life. They are not an afterthought of nature, they are…

— Margaret Atwood

If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or…

— Margaret Atwood

“In their dreams they touch, they intertwine, it's more like a collision, and that is the end of flying. They fall to…

— Margaret Atwood

Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of…

— Margaret Atwood

“I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. Treacherous ground, my own territory.…

— Margaret Atwood

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always…

— Margaret Atwood

The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read:…

— Margaret Atwood

Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be…

— Margaret Atwood

A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of…

— Margaret Atwood

“Another friend of mine used to maintain that airplanes stayed up in the air only because people believed—against reason—that they could fly:…

— Margaret Atwood

“My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had…

— Margaret Atwood