Dune Nature Quotes

#1. Often our students see nothing about religious faith except the lowest common denominator. They see nothing but TV evangelists and fools, and it doesn't occur to them that intelligent people might find this religious business worth living their lives by.

Doris Betts

#2. Nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'

Walker Evans

#3. I happen to be a big believer in home ownership. I'm also a big believer that if someone wants to have a crack at the mining industry in Port Hedland, then they should be able to collect their ... benefits in Port Hedland even though they are from Alice Springs. It should be mobile.

Andrew Forrest

#4. The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.

Mat Johnson

#5. I had come alive here ... this was my home, and though one day it would all trickle through my fingers like so much red dust, for as long as childhood lasted it was a heaven fitted exactly to me. A place I knew by heart. The one place in the world I'd been made for.

Paula McLain

#6. Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.

Judy Blume

#7. Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.

Virginia Woolf

#8. I have a life, goddamit. One life. I've seen too many people give theirs up, to drugs or suicide or even depression ... fuck, even just lazinesss. I've seen lives wasted.
I'll be damned if I'm going to waste mine.

Christopher Golden

#9. What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.

Mason Cooley

#10. Or how it feels to be more important than kings and queens, than presidents or prime ministers or heroes, to be sure of it, in the same way that people are more important than brussels sprouts?

Neil Gaiman

#11. Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

Edward Abbey

#12. Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.

James Stewart

#13. And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

Alexander Pope

#14. Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.

Marina Abramovic

#15. France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

Honore De Balzac

#16. Perfectionism is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If

Augusten Burroughs