Language Quote by David James Duncan

“He then represented to himself the human species, as it really is, as a parcel of insects devouring one another on a little atom…

— Voltaire

“The man who is more than his chemistry, walking on the earth, turning his plow point for a stone, dropping his handles to slide…

— John Steinbeck

“That man who is more than his chemistry, walking on the earth, turning his plow point for a stone, dropping his handles to slide…

— John Steinbeck

“A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“He smelled like grass and warm earth, like smoke and semen and horses.”

— George R.R. Martin

“He was born to be a farmer. It was something that he was good at, something he knew well. He was a giver of…

— Tracy Winegar

“As his mouth flooded with that horrible sweet purple taste, he could actually see those grapes dull, dusty, obese and nasty, crawling up a…

— Stephen King

“Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Maybe the natural world wasn't so jaw-droppingly horrible, appaling, nasty, vile. Sometimes nature could be quite sweet, really, as delicate as a confused and…

— Scott Westerfeld

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he…

— Leo Tolstoy