Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Lying, Eye

  A Left-Handed Commencement Address, delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California

• What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Hate, Love Life

• The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Women, Civilization

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.163, Grove Press

• He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Running, Baby

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 6 (1971)

• The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Reading, Important

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.14, Small Beer Press

• What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Hate, What Is Love

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

• as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Loneliness, Law

• Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep. What's hard to explain now is that, though we were never invaded, and bombed only once and ineffectively on the coast of Oregon, everybody in the country was in that war. Everything we did was influenced by it - eating, traveling, dressing, thinking - everything in daily life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Growing Up, War

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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