“ He welcomed isolation with all his heart. It never occurred to him that the reserve he met in Bedap and Tirin might be a response; that his gentle but already formidable hermetic character might form… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was." -HawkWho had been ArchmageThe Other Wind Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ — Ние се крием от шингите. Но се крием също и от онова, което сме били. Разбираш ли ме, Фалк? Живеем добре в нашите Къщи — достатъчно добре. Но позволяваме да ни управлява страхът. Било е време, когат… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ O. It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All meager, all dry. And the people aren’t beautiful. They have big hands and feet, like me and the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who,… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhe… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the u… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There is no kingdom like the forests. It is time I went there, went in silence, went alone. And maybe there I would learn at last what no act or art or power can teach me, what I have never learned. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The unknown, said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven t… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future - indeed Schrödinger most famous thought experiment goes to show that the fu… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular,… Ursula K. Le Guin