Career Quote by Susan Orlean

“Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. That has always been part of its charm, Laroche loved orchids, but I came to believe he loved…

— Susan Orlean

“To desire orchids is to have a desire that will never be, can never be, fully requited. A collector who wants one of every…

— Susan Orlean

“Orchids are one of the few things in the world that can live forever.”

— Susan Orlean

Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

— Sara Jeannette Duncan

“She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of the other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish…

— Scott Westerfeld

“Many people who collect orchids designate an orchid heir in their wills, because they know the plants will outlast them.”

— Susan Orlean

“If all of this makes orchids seem smart—well, they do seem smart. There is something clever and un-plantlike about their determination to survive and…

— Susan Orlean

“It is a much wiser policy to plant acre after acre of orchids and lead one's life in solitude encompassed by their sheltering stems,…

— Sōseki Natsume

“The men had gnawed through the daisy trees until, wild-eyed and yelling, they broke in two and hit the ground. In the huge silence…

— Toni Morrison

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

— Charles Dickens

Don't hunt what you can't kill

— Shawn Michaels

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson