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Lydia Millet Quotes

American - Novelist | December 5, 1968 -

Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

Children Art Imagination Parents

'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.

Lines Speculation Numerous Contains

I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a distance. But each grizzly I've caught sight of was as fearsome and sublime as the last. You never get used to their raw power and massive bodies, or the mysterious intelligence in their dark, close-set eyes.

Power Eyes Intelligence You Dark

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

People Always Been Insane Interested

There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions.

Always Contradictions Interested Lot

I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small tasks of a day's work and a day's caretaking.

Work Focus Day Small I Can My Own

When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness.

American America Blindness Indians

Without elephants, Africa's landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals have fallen by the hundreds of thousands as a result of two enormous waves of poaching in this century - one in the 1970s and 1980s, the other, beginning around 2009, now underway.

Beginning Waves Landscape Result Now

In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed.

Day City American Warning Drop Did

We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.'

Family Best Child Loved Almost Read

Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?

Literature Extinction Our Register

What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.

Heart Teacher Powerful Sleeve Makes

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