“I think of what wild animals are in our imaginations. And how they are disappearing — not just from the wild, but from people’s everyday lives, replaced by images of themselves in print and on screen. The rarer they get, the fewer meanings animals can have. Eventually rarity is all they are made of. The condor is an icon of extinction. There’s little else to it now but being the last of its kind. And in this lies the diminution of the world. How can you love something, how can you fight to protect it, if all it means is loss?”
― H is for Hawk
― H is for Hawk
“Families of no importance—so much is lost, entire histories, there is no room for it all. There are only the generations surging forward like the tide, the years filled with sound and froth, then being washed over by the rest. That is the legacy of the cities.”
― Burning the Days: Recollection (Ambassador Book Awards)
― Burning the Days: Recollection (Ambassador Book Awards)
“No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.”
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“The only kingdom that makes any man a king is the kingdom of his own soul. The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
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