“The world that used to nurse us
now keeps shouting inane instructions.
That's why I ran to the woods.”

—  Jim Harrison

Source: Songs of Unreason

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods." by Jim Harrison?
Jim Harrison photo
Jim Harrison 20
American novelist, poet, essayist 1937–2016

Related quotes

Joice Mujuru photo

“We now all accept that Covid-19 is a destroyer. Covid-19 is not good at all, that is why you now see us with masks which were previously for doctors and nurses.”

Joice Mujuru (1955) Zimbabwean politician

Source: "Zimbabwe: 'I Have Quit Politics' - Joice Mujuru" https://allafrica.com/stories/202103090190.html, All Africa (March 9, 2021)

Jane Roberts photo

“Now there are classes indeed where the newly dead are instructed. I used to teach some of these.”

Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer

Session 331, Page 331
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 7

Harriet Tubman photo

“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”

Harriet Tubman (1820–1913) African-American abolitionist and humanitarian
Florence Nightingale photo

“I use the word nursing for want of a better.”

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing

Notes on Nursing (1860)
Context: I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet — all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

Alastair Reynolds photo

“I ran an experiment and I got a result. That’s more useful to us than fifty years of theorising.”

Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze

Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 6 (p. 71)

Bernice King photo

“When I saw the funeral scene, I just broke down. I ran out of the cabin into the woods, and for nearly 2-1/2 hours, I just cried: "Why, God, did You take him?"”

Bernice King (1963) American minister, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reflection on experience at age sixteen in "Faces of Faith: A Connection Magazine Anthology" (2006), p. 82.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor photo

“Why is life so complicated….?' I asked.
'To keep us from being bored,' he said.”

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1933) American children's writer

Source: Dangerously Alice

Amos Oz photo

“Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: 'Yids, go back to Palestine,' so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge [sic] shouts at us: 'Yids, get out of Palestine.”

Amos Oz book A Tale of Love and Darkness

A Tale of Love and Darkness (2003).
Quoted on U.S. radio program " Fresh Air http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4195061" (December 1, 2004).

“I used to be ashamed
And now I am proud.
The world once was black
And now it is bright.
I used to walk head bent
And now I stand up tall.
I used to have dreams
But now I have hope.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Perfect

Olaudah Equiano photo

“One day, when all our people were gone out to their works as usual, and only I and my dear sister were left to mind the house, two men and a woman got over our walls, and in a moment seized us both, and, without giving us time to cry out, or make resistance, they stopped our mouths, and ran off with us into the nearest wood.”

Olaudah Equiano (1745–1797) African abolitionist

Chap. II
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)

Related topics