Scott Westerfeld Quotes

I learn something every time I go into the mountains.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

When you go to the mountains, you really have to accept that there is always a risk. It's more dangerous than sitting at home watching TV. It's really sad.

When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.

I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship.

fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.

Success is beautiful and dangerous.

Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain and be prosperous, though we live dangerous.

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it.

Beautiful is dangerous.

A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives.

Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

You managed not to get eaten then?

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

It's such a beautiful question, Luce. I adore you for asking it, and I wish I could explain it better. All I can tell you is this: The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.