Creatures Quote by Robert Olen Butler Download Open image “We are the yearning creatures of this planet.” — Robert Olen Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creatures Desire Inspirational Planets Yearning
We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after the heavens;… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
And we are beginning to hear the groaning from our tortured planet. We are at a point when we must realize that if we… — Masaru Emoto Copy Share Image
The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves. — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“If all the artists you loved changed you, they'd hack you up in little piece and you'd never get back together. That, or you'd… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“Most journals are repositories of great swatches of abstraction and generalization and self-analysis and interpretation and all that bad stuff. Don’t do that. But… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious...… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing,… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“And so, given the musical sensibilities Hatcher treasured in his earthly life, it is hard to exaggerate the severity of his torture at standing… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing. — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“I think, by the way, that’s why athletes are so superstitious. Because if you believe that your current batting streak depends on wearing a… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“And William says, "I lost one son utterly."... ..."So I've held my tongue. But the truth is you didn't go to war. You went… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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