Social norms Quote by John Cage

“Different languages, different food, different customs. That's our neighborhood: wild and tangled and colorful. Like the best kind of garden.”

— Katherine Applegate

“In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. There the wild animals wandered and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the outside. To…

— Don DeLillo

“In terms of the outdoors, I and the others like me weren't badly cheated as such cheatings go nowadays, but we were cheated nevertheless.…

— John Graves

“I know one thing about the place I came from,' I say. 'We didn't eat dessert.' 'Then you came from a horrible and backward…

— Josin L. McQuein

“They sit there for a minute while unknown forms of life pursue recreational activities in their food.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“I’ve got nothing against outsiders, per se, you understand. It’s just that you have to love a town before you can live in it…

— Russell Banks

“The tales that white people tell you of their Native servants are conceived in the same spirit. If they had been told that they…

— Isak Dinesen

“my ancestors didn't fight there way to the top of the food chain to look down and see me eating leaves”

— Leslie Connor

“They were carnivores. That means they ate meat. And they spent all their time hunting for meat. Meat, meat, meat. Lots of meat. Nothing…

— Max Candee

“This was like being in one of those National Geographic magazines. We were among the natives now.”

— Brandi Salazar