Margaret Atwood Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.

  Margaret Atwood

  What Matters, Hands, Gardening

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Hypocrite, Heart

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.254, Anchor

• Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Eye, Islands

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems, 1965-1975”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

  Margaret Atwood

  Focus, What If, Doe

• The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, People, Depth

• I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.

  Margaret Atwood

  Earth Day, Looks, Trends

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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