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“You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!”
― Czeslaw Milosz

“To him, art and craftmanship were usless unless they burned like the sun and had power of storms.”
― Hesse, Hermann

“When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in. ”
― Edward Abbey

“He wanted to write about country so it would be there like Cezanne had done it in a painting. You have to do it from inside yourself... You could do it if you wanted to fight for it. If you'd lived right with your eyes.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Adventure is not in a guidebook and Beauty is not on the map. Seek and ye shall find.”
― Terry Russell

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.”
― Nietzsche, Friedrich

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.”
― Kafka, Franzv

“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”
― George Santayana

“An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
― Jean Cocteau

“Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.”
― Chuang Tzu

“Actually, the eloquence of the wilderness is not a pattern for human eloquence. There is no hardier fool than whoever shouts, "The scene inspired me to set pen to paper," or brush to canvas, or thumb to lyre. The wilderness inspires nothing but itself. Our babblings and scratchings resume in den and studio, whenever things resume their comfortable and incorrect proportions.”
― Renny Russell