"A forest ecology is a delicate one. If……" — Ursula K. Le Guin
"A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest."
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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344 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin has 344 quotes on this site.
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Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve…
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts…
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Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is…
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It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it…
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
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Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite…
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want…
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.
— Frank Bruno
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the…
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To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell…
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Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
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Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
— Albert Einstein
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You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place…
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