12 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Nature

Orson Scott Card quotes on nature

1. 'I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature,' he said, irritated at my failure to respond. 'Nature's virtue is intact,' I reassured him. 'I just know some different laws.'

88. Order and disorder, they each have their beauty

140. The strangest thing about humans is the way they pair up, males and females. Constantly at war with each other, never content to leave each other alone. They never seem to grasp the idea that males and females are separate species with completely different needs and desires, forced to come together only to reproduce.

233. Love was the genes of all creatures demanding that they be replicated, replicated, replicated.

328. Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?

332. Is this earth? So beautiful and monstrous? Is this what we were?

378. Could she help it that she has been given a combination of genes that gave her an extraordinary memory, an enormous capacity for grasping and understanding ideas, and a mind that was able to make connections that no one else could see?

384. Nature had no scheme. Only a series of accidents.

519. Perhaps all that some men need from a woman is for her to be loving and wise and careful, like a field of flowers where he can play the butterfly, drawing sweetness from her blossoms

619. At least her hormones liked it

728. What kind of animal are you? Can't you make up a lie and believe it?

901. A strange people, at once cruel and kind, strong and weak, and so quick to change from one extreme to the other that I could not predict what they would do.