Alison Hawthorne Deming Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• I'm extremely interested in science as the mythos within which I live. Science tells me what kind of animal I am, what kind of a universe I live in. It's always deepening my understanding of the natural world.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Animal, Understanding, World

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

• As poets, we don't accept oppression; we are about a freedom of spirit, or whatever you want to call it. I think environmental concerns have to go to the deep place, so we speak from a place of great empathy for the planet - for the disadvantaged people, animals, places, cultures.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Animal, Thinking, People

• I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face was stitched back together and here I still am, gratefully so. I believe that experience shocked me into a deep alliance with the animal world, its beauty and viciousness and terror.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Dog, Believe, Animal

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

• It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Animal, Voice, Giving

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

• You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time in nature that just happen. By comparison, human life is really, really complicated. We're gifted animals, but we are so complicated. Nothing is easy for us, except maybe eating too much.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Animal, Survival, Development

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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