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“The burly woodsman who attaks the diminutive pine of the east must experience remorse, as would a strong man who made war upon a boy, but [the Redwood] is something to compel his respect; he must feel that in grappling with these monsters he is doing the work of a Hercules.”
― Trees in Paradise: A California History
― Trees in Paradise: A California History
“Trust the horticulturalist: California's genius may be green, but it's underlying beauty is brown.”
― Trees in Paradise: A California History
― Trees in Paradise: A California History
“Recreation", which is to say: a refreshing exercise of the organism, because it was in immediate danger of overindulging itself in the uninterrupted monotony of daily life and growing indifferent.”
― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
“That is the way a white man remembers a battle. So many soldiers here, so many there. Such a captain here. Such a lieutenant there. This colonel in one place. That major in another. The horses precisely here, the cannon exactly there. But not an Indian. An Indian remembers where his mother fell bayoneted, or his little brother had his skull smashed, or his big sister cried for mercy and was shot in the mouth.”
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“Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought. Look at me.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
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