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Nature Quotes by Stephen King

43 Nature quotes by Stephen King

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Stephen King uses nature to illustrate big ideas about life and behavior. He compares a turtle’s slow, kind thoughts to the world we share. He also reminds us that nature can be cruel, with madness and harsh expectations shaping what people receive.

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“Human nature has no bottom. It is as deep and mysterious as the mind of God.”

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Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

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“Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.”

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“When there’s no more room in hell, this artifact said, the dead will walk the earth.”

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“And is there Hell, or do we make our own on earth?”

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“There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”

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“THERE IS NO GRAVITY, THE EARTH JUST SUCKS.”

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By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

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“Once upon a bye, before your grandfather’s grandfather was born, on the edge of an unexplored wilderness called the Endless Forest, there…

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“ Boys grow up to be men . And it’s men who cause all the trouble. They’re the ones who shed the…

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Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

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Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that…

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“Two babbies shagging each other like they were the first two on earth to discover how 'twas done.”

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“See the TURTLE of enormous girth, On his shell he holds the earth. If you want to run and play, Come along…

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“There ain't no power in heaven or on earth that can stop people from thinkin the worst when they want to.”

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“Life is a tiger you have to grab by the tail, and if you don't know the nature of the beast it…

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“Hitchhiking around Canada with a buddy after my senior year of college was the closest thing to an adventure I'd ever had,…

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“[...] in his experience, reversion was the nature of things-people who had given up smoking (he touched the cigarette cocked behind his…

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“See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; He holds…

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Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other…

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“Three days ago we not only ruled the earth, we had survivor's guilt about all the other species we'd wiped out on…

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“But listen to me, all three of you, n hear this if you don't hear nothing else: everything I did, I did…

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You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If…

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“He had an idea all such blocks were probably fear-centered and basically hysterical in nature, as if the brain detected (or thought…

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“All that profligate investment of energy to effect a splendid, momentary reversal of natural law. That such a reversal should demand so…

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“Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&WM track and…

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“It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough. You…

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“At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin…

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“Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.”

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“Innocence to experience. Human nature, baby. Grab it and growl.”

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“What the fuck, a man can't help his nature.”

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“You can't blame human nature, and there was nothing more human than curiosity.”

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“Truth was sometimes not the same as reality—this was one of the certainties that lived in the hollow, cavey place at the…

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Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling…

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“He did it with a teacher's natural assumptions: lecturing was his responsibility, interruption his privilege.”

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If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan…

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“Mothers were naturals for law enforcement, because toddlers, like criminals, were often belligerent and destructive.”

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“Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.”

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Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

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Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

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“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”