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American naturalist and essayist 1837–1921Related quotes

“Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.”
Source: Maniac Magee

“Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.”
Interview on NPR All Things Considered, April 19, 2009.

"Nobody Wants To Know" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Nobody Wants To Know" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJDTLHMsG2g (song on YouTube)
Song lyrics

Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
Context: The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the woods, with screens on the windows. They want a simplified life for a while, without all their stuff. Or a nice river rafting trip for a few days, with somebody else doing the cooking. Nobody wants to go back to nature in any real way, and nobody does. It's all talk — and as the years go on, and the world population grows increasingly urban, it's uninformed talk. Farmers know what they're talking about. City people don't. It's all fantasy.

“If we don't get to a higher place and
Find somebody, can help somebody,
Might be nobody no more.”
A Higher Place
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)

“The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.”