"And the formation of man is the most……" — Bruce Chatwin
"And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity."
—
Bruce Chatwin
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
28 Quotes by Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin has 28 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The song and the land are one.
-
A journey is a fragment of Hell.
-
I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the…
-
If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the…
-
Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk…
-
I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.
-
Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of…
-
Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.
-
When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.
-
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our…
-
The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a…
-
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the…
See all 28 quotes by Bruce Chatwin »
More Facing Quotes
This quote is filed under Facing Quotes,
one of 856 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics…
— Michele Bachmann
-
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all…
— Jean Baudrillard
-
I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open…
— Bob Beauprez
-
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving…
— Martha Beck
-
In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a…
— Tony Blair
-
When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and…
— Drew Bledsoe
-
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live,…
— Bono
-
America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final…
— George W. Bush
-
So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place.…
— George W. Bush
-
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
— Gillian Anderson
-
The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
-
Based on my experience as a prosecutor in Miami, illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing this…
— Janet Reno
See all 856 Facing Quotes »