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Sally Carrighar Quotes:

Sally Carrighar quotes

Ocupation: Writer

Life: February 10, 1898 - October 9, 1985

Birthday: February 10

Death: October 9

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There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size was a torment. Being sensitive little beasts, they became overstimulated by superfluous numbers of their own kind. They had tried to escape, but with pitiable irony, all tried to escape together.

Topics: Numbers, Solitude, Together, Lemmings

human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.

source: - Sally Carrighar (1974). “Home to the wilderness: a personal journey”, Viking Pr

Topics: Nature, Real, Flower

I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blends becomes as real as a keynote of music. Look at the exquisite yellow flowerettes at the center, become very small with them. Be the flower, be the trees, the blowing grasses. Fly with the birds, jump with a squirrel!

Topics: Real, Flower, Squirrels, Asters

During the last century a seven-year-old boy, Harry Service, was lost from his family's home in Manitoba and lived for two weeks with a badger in its underground den. When he was found he said that the badger had brought him food several times.

source: - Sally Carrighar (1965). “Wild Heritage”

Topics: Home, Boys, Years, Badgers

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