jungle

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
907613a	The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.	forest weakness jungle	Tahir Shah
3cb0444	I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.	writing storytelling jungle	Edgar Rice Burroughs
89a3aa8	On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.	trust team quest jungle	Tahir Shah
8a5e383	There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.	fear phantom forest jungle terror	Tahir Shah
ebecb1e	The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.	endurance jungle	Tahir Shah
0a7f20a	We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose - was a rainbow coalition of one colour: green. There was an infinity of greens, rendered all the greener by splashes of red hibiscus and the herons floating past, so white and big it seemed as if sheets hung out to dry had suddenly taken wing. All other colours - even purple and black - were shades of green. Light and shade were degrees of green. Greenness, here, was less a colour than a colonising impulse. Everything was either already green - like a snake, bright as a blade of grass, sidling across the footpath - or in the process of becoming so. Statues of the Buddha were mossy, furred with green.	travel globetrotting southeast-asia verdant landscapes green travel-writing jungle	Geoff Dyer
ef8703f	There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and the entire jungle.	hope jungle wilderness	Henryk Sienkiewicz
b667fb0	Where everything is words, you'd think I'd have some mastery and know my way around, but all this churning hatred, each man a verbal firing squad, immeasurable suspicions, a flood of mocking, angry talk, all of life a vicious debate, conversations in which there is nothing that cannot be said...no, I'd be better off in the jungle, I thought, where a roar's a roar and no one is hard put to miss its meaning.	words jungle mastery suspicions	Philip Roth
4af15da	The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.	time inertia village jungle	Tahir Shah

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

Tahir Shah

3cb0444

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

writing storytelling jungle

Edgar Rice Burroughs

89a3aa8

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.

trust team quest jungle

Tahir Shah

8a5e383

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

fear phantom forest jungle terror

Tahir Shah

ebecb1e

The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.

endurance jungle

Tahir Shah

0a7f20a

We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose - was a rainbow coalition of one colour: green. There was an infinity of greens, rendered all the greener by splashes of red hibiscus and the herons floating past, so white and big it seemed as if sheets hung out to dry had suddenly taken wing. All other colours - even purple and black - were shades of green. Light and shade were degrees of green. Greenness, here, was less a colour than a colonising impulse. Everything was either already green - like a snake, bright as a blade of grass, sidling across the footpath - or in the process of becoming so. Statues of the Buddha were mossy, furred with green.

travel globetrotting southeast-asia verdant landscapes green travel-writing jungle

Geoff Dyer

ef8703f

There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and the entire jungle.

hope jungle wilderness

Henryk Sienkiewicz

b667fb0

Where everything is words, you'd think I'd have some mastery and know my way around, but all this churning hatred, each man a verbal firing squad, immeasurable suspicions, a flood of mocking, angry talk, all of life a vicious debate, conversations in which there is nothing that cannot be said...no, I'd be better off in the jungle, I thought, where a roar's a roar and no one is hard put to miss its meaning.

words jungle mastery suspicions

Philip Roth

4af15da

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

time inertia village jungle

Tahir Shah