Howard Evans famous quotes

I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they are likely to teach us about ourselves but because they remind us, of we will let them, that there are other voices, other rhythms, other strivings and fulfillments than our own.
-- Howard Evans

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One's appreciation of nature is never more acuet than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.
-- Howard Evans

#Appreciation #Nature #Flesh

Can anything compare to the sight of the first yellow violets blooming along a woodland path? These most fragile of plants are yet hardy enough to bloom when nights are still frosty and snow still lingers in the ravines.
-- Howard Evans

#Night #Sight #Yellow

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.