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“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself”

— Henry Miller

“They could hear Ursula fighting against the laws of creation to maintain the line, and Jose Arcadio Buendia searching for the mythical truth of…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“That is what life meant, a unique presence, and it was essential in every creature.”

— David Malouf

“And like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the Underworld. I understood now what all the beauty of the…

— H.G. Wells

“Began to tear at it - not as a creature that eats earth and grass, but as if it were eating a curtain or…

— Neil Gaiman

“A picture of the world, nothing more than a casting stone set in the heavens, intruded on Errol's dismay. World without end. Was Illustra,…

— Patrick W. Carr

“To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“How could anyone catch all of the beauty in the Present Moment, when, after years of misery, there was suddenly a day when all…

— Cintra Wilson

“In The Odyssey, we find instead the story of a man whose grand adventure is simply to go back to his own home, where…

— Homer

“In short, for me to live happily it was essential for the creatures I chose not to live at all. They must receive their…

— Albert Camus

“As the snail's world grew more familiar, my own human world became less so; my species was so large, so rushed, and so confusing.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to…

— Michel Foucault