"One cannot fix one's eyes on the..." - Quote by Jane Austen

“I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?”

“What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.”

“she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.”

“Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage”

“Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.”

“Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.”

“I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.”

“Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.”

“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”