F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, p. 194.
To most inventors, scientists, and technologists, nature is a destructive force and part of their job is to insulate man from nature.
Without interference “nature” kills all life forms. Over 99 percent of all the species that ever lived are extinct—wiped out by nature and natural events. Man has extended his lifespan by controlling or ameliorating the effects of nature. Man may destroy his own species in the end by undesirable changes in environment, but if left only to nature, man’s extinction is virtually certain.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and Short story writer. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term which he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories. Although he temporarily achieved popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald only received wide critical and popular acclaim after his death. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.