Borders Quote by Michael McCoy

“The state is the coarse husk around the seed of life, and nothing more. It is the wall around the garden of human fruits…

— Friedrich Hölderlin

“We are in the era of nature disconnection.”

— Steven Magee

“Originally, there were no man-made borders to divide and segregate lands on this beautiful planet.”

— Christopher Dines

“Our border now is no line between two hills, but the line our planet makes in circling the Sun.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I understand. There are rivers and tides everywhere, I suppose, real and otherwise. Their business is to carry along anyone who’s too weak to…

— Lena Manta

“Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.”

— Hermann Hesse

“It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along...”

— John Darnielle

“What is it that ties shapes of land to the human heart, Mo?”

— David Mitchell

“Peaks and valleys. That's what life comes down to, in the end. Fucking geography.”

— Laura Zigman

“We should turn resolutely towards Nature.”

— Samuel Beckett

“the boundaries of nature were far more important than the boundaries of nations.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“That was the trouble. The land is too big out there, and after a while it starts to swallow you up. I reached a…

— Paul Auster