"Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation." — Susan Orlean

"Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation."

— Susan Orlean

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126 Quotes by Susan Orlean

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The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired.
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work…
You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.
Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida
I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.
I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you…
Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.
The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least,…
I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and…
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching.
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

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More Hunting Quotes

This quote is filed under Hunting Quotes, one of 488 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost… — Josh Billings
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. — Josh Billings
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. — Otto von Bismarck
But time growing old teaches all things. — Aeschylus
You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport. — Elayne Boosler
My best artist friend is definitely Jason Aldean. He and I really get along great and are really great friends.… — Luke Bryan
My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to… — Luke Bryan
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to… — Jimmy Buffett
I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel… — George Clooney
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and… — Marv Levy
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man… — Benjamin De Casseres

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