10+ Verlyn Klinkenborg Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Verlyn Klinkenborg quotes and sayings.

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth — Verlyn Klinkenborg

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to do with us. The grace is in the separation, the distance, the sense of a self-sustaining way of life. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned. — Verlyn Klinkenborg