Pastoral Resources

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Words are loaded pistols.