I actually never got badly injured - I'm tough as frickin' nails.
(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.
Four legs on a chair, to me, represent a strong foundation and always knowing where I come from.
I try to build the things so that they're fairly indestructible. I've learned from my mistakes and some of those units, even if human life disappears from the planet, will still be recognizable a thousand years from now abandoned somewhere in the woods.
I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.
Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
Hardness ever of hardness is mother.
Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.
Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.
I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.
I'm very sturdy and very proud of it.
Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?" "Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.
Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.
