Around the world Quote by Seanan McGuire

“The species greatest harvest ― words.”

— David Brin

“That tale is a fantasy. There is no evidence that people became more intelligent with time. Foragers knew the secrets of nature long before…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The old stories must be learned anew, studied again within the context of a world at odds with itself and only able to be…

— Michael Meade

“the society that cherishes and keeps its myths alive will be nourished from the soundest, richest strata of the human spirit.”

— Joseph Campbell

“For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic…

— Juliet Marillier

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always…

— Adam Nevill

“a tale of myth mystery, and a past long forgotten.”

— Lisa M. Green

“Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Europe enjoyed a heritage of fairy tales alive with talking animals--some almost real, other deliciously bogus-- to spark child's fantasies and gallop grownups to…

— Diane Ackerman

“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more…

— Neil Gaiman