#pear

The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume. ↗

— William John Wills

#assume #barren #beautiful #believe #could

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#disappear #few #humanity #insects #land

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#disappear #enough #ignore #long #only

A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#boy #essentially #guy #high-paying #job

What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks. ↗

— Richard Wilson

#bollocks #language #now #talking #you

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work. ↗

— William Julius Wilson

#crime #disappearance #dissolution #family #fundamentally

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. ↗

— Terri Windling

#adage #before #done #how #old

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#frightened #i #vulnerable

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#anything #knows #legend #nobody #person

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. ↗

— James Wolcott

#been #book #critics #cultural #dance