Quotes by Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen

Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.

Clear

Simple

Simplicity

Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. This retreat from wonder, the backing away like lobsters into safe crannies, the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came.

Air

Joy

Water

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

Light

Memories

Past

Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous

Dangerous

Thinking

World

Be light, light, light – full of light!

Light

Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders

Dark

Rivers

Sunset

For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children’s children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.

Children

Healing

Night

Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn’t that wonderful?

Leopards

Snow

Wonderful

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined – how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

Beautiful

Regret

Travel

How could I say that I wished to penetrate the secrets of the mountains in search of something still unknown that, like the yeti, might well be missed for the very fact of searching?

Mountain

Secret

Yeti

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Air

Animal

Beautiful

Beauty

Best Work

Black

Blood

Book

Broken

Character

Children

Civilization

Clear

Confused

Consciousness

Constraints

Curiosity

Cutting

Dangerous

Dark

Details

Doomed

Dope

Dwelling

Enlightenment

Events

Expression

Eye

Feelings

Feet

Fiction

Fiction And Nonfiction

Forever

Hair

Healing

Heart

Helping Others

Ideas

Inferiority

Inspirational

Joy

Kids

Knowing

Land

Landscape

Leopards

Life

Life Is

Light

Listening

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Quotes by Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen

Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous

Be light, light, light – full of light!

Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders

For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children’s children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.

Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn’t that wonderful?

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined – how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

How could I say that I wished to penetrate the secrets of the mountains in search of something still unknown that, like the yeti, might well be missed for the very fact of searching?

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