Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

  • -- Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亚伍尔夫

自然中的绿色是一回事,文学中的绿色是另一回事。自然和文字似乎有一种天然的反感;把他们聚在一起,他们就会互相撕成碎片。

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When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.

当我任命环境部长为主要内阁成员时,即规划和优先事项委员会,渥太华发出的信号很重要,因为这是官僚机构所理解的。

If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to writing; simple words greater effect.

如果我们被劝诫演奏简单优美的旋律,而不是有错误的困难旋律,那么写作也应该如此;简单的话效果更大。

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

写作是唯一一个没有人认为你很可笑的职业,如果你没有赚到钱。

We call ourselves “products of environment” forgetting that we are also its producers.

我们称自己为“环境的产物”,却忘记了我们也是环境的生产者。