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1 " For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home "
― Tahir Shah , Travels With Myself
2 " a small nation resembles a big family and likes to describe itself that way. In the language of the smallest European people, in Icelandic, the term for " family" is fjölskylda; the etymology is eloquent: skylda means " obligation" ; fjöl means " multiple." Family is thus " a multiple obligation." Icelanders have a single word for " family ties" : fjölskyldubönd: " the cords (bönd) of multiple obligations." Thus in the big family that is a small country, the artist is bound in multiple ways, by multiple cords. When Nietzsche noisily savaged the German character, when Stendhal announced that he preferred Italy to his homeland, no German or Frenchman took offense; if a Greek or a Czech dared to say the same thing, his family would curse him as a detestable traitor. "
3 " Harrowing The plow has savaged this sweet field Misshapen clods of earth kicked up Rocks and twisted roots exposed to view Last year’s growth demolished by the blade. I have plowed my life this way Turned over a whole history Looking for the roots of what went wrong Until my face is ravaged, furrowed, scared. Enough. The job is done. Whatever’s been uprooted, let it be Seedbed for the growing that’s to come I plowed to unearth last year’s reasons— The farmer plows to plant a greening season. "
― Parker J. Palmer , Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
4 " And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again. "
― Orson Scott Card , Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
5 " Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world. "
― Bryant McGill , Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
