Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guinis an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 October 1929
CountryUnited States of America
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes about
answers duration becoming
Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.
childhood firsts steps
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
country lying eye
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.
simple thinking details
I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
responsibility choices anarchist
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
children grateful revolution
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
return voyages whole
To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.
odds two limits
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
divine-right changed humans
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings
law-of-attraction
To oppose something is to maintain it.
imagination matter truth-is
Truth is a matter of the imagination.
funny good-morning good-day
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
fiction science-fiction
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.
funny humor sleep
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.