Inhabitants Quote by Italo Calvino

“Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue of the sky, full of stars, all…

— Hermann Hesse

“These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated…

— Émile Zola

“And in this form, they find themselves longing to ascend mountains, wander the seas, and conquer the air, seeking to recapture the limitlessness they…

— David Eagleman

“The blue light of the rising moon fell on the rocks and the scant forest of the taiga, revealing each projecting rock, each tree…

— Octavio Paz

“With the Wit, one is aware of all the life that surrounds one. It was not just the warmth of the mare nearby that…

— Robin Hobb

“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding…

— Donna Tartt

“They, too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape, centuries dead; they'd had the experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and…

— donna tartt

“I wonder now why humans hate the map of their life that appears on their own bodies, when a tree like this, or a…

— Lucinda Riley

“They were boastful, triumphant; it seemed to both that they had read every book in the world; known every sin, passion, and joy. Civilizations…

— Virginia Woolf

“If history has taught me anything about the nature of others, it has thought me that when natures can not be denied, they persist.”

— Dew Platt

“I found myself, unbidden, thinking of the holy fools in the old story, the ones who went fishing in the lake for the moon,…

— Neil Gaiman

“Show me where there is life in the desert. Only those who can see such signs of life are able to find treasure.”

— Paulo Coelho