Alice Walker Quotes

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

To laugh is proper to man.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

I like to see people's eyes when I'm singing to them.

Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

We are shaped by our conversations.