Cormac McCarthy on Nature
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Cormac McCarthy, catalogued under nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Cormac McCarthy, entry #7781: "Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said."
Attributed to Cormac McCarthy, entry #95860: "When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf."
6 Quotes by Cormac McCarthy on Nature
"Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said."
"When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf."
"Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth. — The judge"
"Men are made of the dust of the earth."
"And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare."
"When he looked back at the primadonna she was watching them through the spyglasses. As if she might better assess them in that way where they set forth upon the shadowbanded road, the coming twilight. Inhabiting only that ocular ground in which the country appeared out of nothing and vanished again into nothing, tree and rock and the darkening mountains beyond, all of it contained and itself containing only what was needed and nothing more."