Nature Quote by David Vann

“Man has made such a mighty struggle to feel at home on the face of the earth, without even yet succeeding.”

— D. H. Lawrence

“It wasn't like America, where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. We hadn't learned yet, there was not…

— Janet Fitch

“That week we tried everything to bury our heads in the sand. But the problem remains the same world over; the sand is never…

— Bill Carter

“Maybe the world wasn't as good as it should be. There was cruelty in it, and suffering. And life was short--far shorter than was…

— Eugie Foster

“He had the feeling that humanity was running in place. So many centuries and they had not learned anything new.”

— Oliver Pötzsch

“I grabbed a shovel and dug, and dug, and dug. Sorry not a very poetic thought, but very deep.”

— Lenora Fraga

“Humanity was cruel, and if you were prepared to try to find a bottom to that cruelty, you had best be prepared for a…

— Mira Grant

“You, too, are cut out for failure; not that you’d fight the world. You’d let it chew you up and spit you out, and…

— John Williams

“But we have not understood the world; how its way is to destroy without destroying, the way air levels a mountain; things fly apart…

— Alan Williamson

“It was like fishing a swamp, where you feel the tug of something that at first seems promising and then resistant and finally hopeless…

— Tobias Wolff

“Around every corner, he found himself faced with another dark recess of the human condition, and the struggles people had experienced. It showed him…

— Bella Forrest

“He lay on the bed and he felt he might never rise from it. He lay in an enormous torpor. The world was too…

— William Gay