#creatures

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#dependent #last #made #ourselves #upon

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. ↗

— John Green

#cancer #creatures #easy #either #else

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest. ↗

— William Gurnall

#creatures #excels #glorious #light #most

But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques. ↗

— Jim Henson

#alive #creatures #crystal #dark #go

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#draw #drop #earth #fear #heavenly

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#beautiful #benevolent #both #could #creatures

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#creatures #fills #interest #little #live

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind. ↗

— Mary Austin

#creatures #credit #fully #interdependence #kind

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #cannot #creatures #eat #feel

Ant Prune was holding one of the squirrels in her hand. ‘And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.' That was a visual I didn't need ↗

— Margaret Stohl

#humor #squirrels #beauty