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Shadow Country QUOTES

Shadow Country QUOTES

41 " One minute he was packing in grub like Judas Priest at the Last Supper and the next he was felled like a stockyard beef, that’s how quick Death had him, his mouth oozing sweet potato like the hind end of a turkey packed with stuffing. "

― Peter Matthiessen , Shadow Country

42 " made all our hopes and struggles in this world simply ridiculous for the fundamental reason that our precious human life, for all its joys, was blood-soaked, cruel, and empty, with only sorrow, fear, disease at its dark end, fading to nothingness. Staring back at him, I thought, Was this a society of human beings or some purgatory where folks was condemned to live their lives with a laughing killer loose amongst them like a wolf? "

― Peter Matthiessen , Shadow Country

43 " Since you claim him as a kinsman, Private Watson, you cannot have forgotten the immortal words of Jefferson of Virginia.” Here he shouted, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just! "

― Peter Matthiessen , Shadow Country

44 " The present book draws together in one work the themes that have absorbed me all my life—the pollution of land and air and water that is inevitable in the blind obliteration of the wilderness and its wild creatures and also the injustice to the poor of our own species, especially the indigenous peoples and the inheritors of slavery left behind by the cruel hypocrisy of what those in power represent as progress and democracy. E. "

― Peter Matthiessen , Shadow Country