Flora and fauna Quote by Mark Steyn

“He had a Minnesotan’s admiration for resourcefulness in the face of hardship, bred by generations of people one very bad winter away from starvation…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Looking at these pictures, I wonder, did that part of me that flourished around him, like prized perennials under a tender gardener's care, die…

— Lisa Schroeder

“Minnesota! It smelled like raspberries and sunlight and tender grass. It was summer, and everything was more beautiful than any picture she had carried…

— Ann Patchett

“Minnesota! It smelled like raspberries and sunlight and tender grass. It was summer and everything was more beautiful than any picture she had carried…

— Ann Patchett

“He was grateful, then, for his friends, and for how relatively little they had mined from him, how they had left him to himself,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Percy figured they must be on the bottom of his foot—a rough, calloused expanse where only the most disgusting plant life grew. Finally”

— Rick Riordan

“This man obviously contained some sort of catalytic converter that rendered the filth of his language as natural and inoffensive as dirt in a…

— David James Duncan

“I could not but feel that it was ironical that the old relative should have spoken disparagingly of fawns as a class, sneering at…

— P G Wodehouse

“Time had come to formulate a reason to abandon the gardens and leave Miss Bower to leech onto some other gentleman, preferably one who…

— Sarah M. Eden

“I had left small-town, rural life for good, and I had no intention of ever returning, not because I didn't like my home but…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks.”

— Erik Larson

“For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land more than…

— Bruce-Novoa