Quotes for All
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we … Read more
It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven’t even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone? E. O. Wilson
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn’t intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. E. O. Wilson
Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes. E. M. Forster
The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it… It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew … Read more
There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind. Fábio Moon
The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder. Douglas Coupland
Did I ever tell you,’ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, ‘that that aunt of mine once hatched an egg?’ He paused, deep in thought, and walked slowly to the door before turning again. His lordship of Aubigny, staring after the vanishing form of his brother, received the full … Read more