Quotes About My Native Place

#1. It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities of life are astonishingly complex, and cannot take place in islands of semiwilderness like the national parks.

William Kittredge

#2. Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

Edward Dahlberg

#3. To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#4. Individuals seem to have reached their walls and so has the entire human race. Whatever isn't working, isn't life-producing, isn't producing love for ourselves or others, is going to have to go now. Or, literally, there will be hell to pay.

Marianne Williamson

#5. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.

Crazy Horse

#6. There is no place in this world warmer than our native land.

Khem Veasna

#7. I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.

John Quincy Adams

#8. Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

Jamaica Kincaid

#9. I never saw an athletic girl that thought she was strong enough to do indoor work.

Kin Hubbard

#10. I'm sure it's like you writing a story. If you don't care, how can the reader?

Cecelia Ahern

#11. Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a
strange land.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

#12. We who lose our footing have lost our way.

Anasazi Foundation

#13. Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job.

Iain M. Banks

#14. My mother had a kindness
that embraced all life.
She knew her place well
and was comfortable in giving everything she had.

This is the tradition of native women.

Dan George

#15. My native land is all lands,
In no particular direction.
My monastery is the solitary mountains,
In no particular place.
My family is all the beings of the six realms.

SHABKAR

#16. To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only then is it possible to educate our people in a way that suits them and to inspire in them an ardent love for their native place and their motherland.

Kim Il-sung

#17. I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.

Christopher Walken

#18. Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together
Thoughts so all unlike each other;
To mutter and mock a broken charm,
To dally with wrong that does no harm.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#19. Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#20. It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.

Virgil

#21. I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.

Mika.

#22. Life is short, break the rules.

Mark Twain

#23. You deserve to know that I love you, more than I ever intended to, more than I ever thought I could love someone whom I admittedly barely know. It's the dumbest love there is, love that doesn't come back
to you.

Pamela Ribon

#24. It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground ... A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever he is lifted up through music he can say to himself: "Yes, you come from other worlds, and in music you can experience your native place."

Rudolf Steiner

#25. I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.

Jonathan Silverman

#26. Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

Samuel Johnson

#27. We drank because we're drunks. We never get better. We get a daily reprieve based on our spiritual condition, and that's it.

Stephen King

#28. I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

Cai Guo-Qiang

#29. With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world

John Smith

#30. There are some things in life that just are. They are meant to be, and to fight against them is to ensure your own loss.

Theresa Smith

#31. Every native species, however humble in appearance ... has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

E. O. Wilson

#32. My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The arrow of natural history won't be reversed: by now the Jonathan's as much an American as I am.

Michael Pollan

#33. I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

Jim Harrison

#34. I'm always pointing things out to native New Yorkers that I think are weird about this place and their culture and all that. But I feel like my friends and family from California feel like I've totally "become a New Yorker."

Adrian Tomine

#35. Having a place means that you know what a place means ... what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense ... Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

Gary Snyder

#36. People tell me, "Well, you understand where the voters are, Jeff, where the votes are, or what people are thinking," and they'll sort of - in a complimentary way. And it's a bit of an acknowledgement that we've been blind to some of these issues for too long.

Jeff Sessions

#37. Here, then, is one way in which we would do well to go a little native: backward, or perhaps it is forward, to a time and place where the gathering and preparing and enjoying of food were closer to the center of a well-lived life.

Michael Pollan

#38. To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.

David Treuer