"This world is painted on a wild dark…" — Peter Matthiessen

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35 Quotes by Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of…
Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had…
Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.
I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow.…
There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before…
My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.
Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when…
The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension,…
I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black…
Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure…
Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time,…
In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes…

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I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was,… — Darren Aronofsky
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am… — Arthur Ashe
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and… — Margaret Atwood
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy… — Saint Augustine
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,… — Paul Auster
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased… — Francis Bacon
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put… — Russell Baker
Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark. — Christian Bale
I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. — Lynda Barry
I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally… — Drew Barrymore
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.… — L. Frank Baum

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