"The industrial world destroys nature not because it……" — Mary Ruefle
"The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it."
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Mary Ruefle
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19 Quotes by Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle has 19 quotes on this site.
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Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.
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My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.
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Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among…
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I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty…
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I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.
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In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time,…
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There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the…
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There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does…
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The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke…
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If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.
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In the end I would rather wonder than know
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Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
— Dido Armstrong
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
— Jane Austen
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
— Teresa of Avila
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I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different…
— Kevin Bacon
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most…
— Abigail Adams
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I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm…
— Amy Adams
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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck…
— Lucille Ball
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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
— Lucille Ball
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I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't…
— Brigitte Bardot
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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
— Dave Barry
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
— Lynda Barry
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