In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.


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WALLACE STEVENS
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that...
WALLACE STEGNER
I don't think people think about Zook anymore at Florida. He's just a memory there now.
ALLEN WALLACE
If he (Schilling) goes to Washington that will be a giant positive for them in many different ways.
ALLEN WALLACE
A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomp...
ALLEN WALLACE
If you win the mythical recruiting title, it shows you're focused, you've got momentum and that you'...
ALLEN WALLACE
They [Stoops and Carroll] have a unique ability to plan for the short term and the long term at the ...
ALLEN WALLACE
It's always harder to stay at the top. Soon they're going to find out what it's like to try to recru...
ALLEN WALLACE
You don't see Penn State hanging on in the latter stages of these recruiting races for difference ma...
ALLEN WALLACE
I think it's case of Penn State not focusing on the right kids. You don't see them often bringing in...
ALLEN WALLACE
They have the stature now where they can appeal to anyone, anyplace.
ALLEN WALLACE
Ultimately, it’s about determining what matters most to you; what’s important; what it will take...
CARLOS WALLACE
A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
DANIEL WALLACE
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
WALLACE STEVENS
How red the rose that is the soldier
WALLACE STEVENS
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
WALLACE STEVENS
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, ...
WALLACE STEVENS
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
WALLACE STEVENS
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
WALLACE STEVENS
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
WALLACE STEVENS
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. ...
WALLACE STEVENS
I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing...
WALLACE STEVENS
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
LEW WALLACE
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
WALLACE STEVENS
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
WALLACE STEVENS
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla...
WALLACE STEVENS
The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS
Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.
WALLACE RICE
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget ...
WALLACE STEVENS
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
LEW WALLACE
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the thr...
WALLACE STEVENS
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
WALLACE STEVENS
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more th...
WALLACE STEVENS
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves t...
WALLACE STEVENS
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. Th...
WALLACE STEVENS
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli...
WALLACE STEVENS
The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of ...
WALLACE STEVENS
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu...
WALLACE STEVENS
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE
If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS
I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to...
LEW WALLACE
Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS