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Top 15 J. A. Baker Quotes (2024 Update)

J. A. Baker Quote: “Vision with action can change the world.”

1. “Vision with action can change the world.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.”

2. “Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.”

3. “Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “This is now a different place from what it was two hours ago. There is no mysterious essence we can call a ‘place’. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.”

4. “This is now a different place from what it was two hours ago. There is no mysterious essence we can call a ‘place’. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.”

5. “I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “We are the killers. We stink of death. We carry it with us. It sticks to us like frost. We cannot tear it away.”

6. “We are the killers. We stink of death. We carry it with us. It sticks to us like frost. We cannot tear it away.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “The valley sinks into mist, and the yellow orbital ring of the horizon closes over the glaring cornea of the sun. The eastern ridge blooms purple, then fades to inimical black. The earth exhales into the cold dusk. Frost forms in hollows shaded from the afterglow. Owls wake and call. The first stars hover and drift down. Like a roosting hawk, I listen to the silence and gaze into the dark.”

7. “The valley sinks into mist, and the yellow orbital ring of the horizon closes over the glaring cornea of the sun. The eastern ridge blooms purple, then fades to inimical black. The earth exhales into the cold dusk. Frost forms in hollows shaded from the afterglow. Owls wake and call. The first stars hover and drift down. Like a roosting hawk, I listen to the silence and gaze into the dark.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “Approach him across open ground with a steady unfaltering movement. Let your shape grow in size but do not alter its outline. Never hide yourself unless concealment is complete. Be alone. Shun the furtive oddity of man, cringe from the hostile eyes of farms. Learn to fear. To share fear is the greatest bond of all. The hunter must become the thing he hunts.”

8. “Approach him across open ground with a steady unfaltering movement. Let your shape grow in size but do not alter its outline. Never hide yourself unless concealment is complete. Be alone. Shun the furtive oddity of man, cringe from the hostile eyes of farms. Learn to fear. To share fear is the greatest bond of all. The hunter must become the thing he hunts.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “It is perhaps the perverse fate of a deeply private person to find that the thing he or she wishes most to withhold or deems least important, becomes the stuff of widest speculation.”

9. “It is perhaps the perverse fate of a deeply private person to find that the thing he or she wishes most to withhold or deems least important, becomes the stuff of widest speculation.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “The hawkless valley bloomed with the soft voices of the waking owls.”

10. “The hawkless valley bloomed with the soft voices of the waking owls.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “It is a good life, a seal’s, here in these shallow waters. Like the lives of so many air and water creatures, it seems a better one than ours. We have no element. Nothing sustains us when we fall.”

11. “It is a good life, a seal’s, here in these shallow waters. Like the lives of so many air and water creatures, it seems a better one than ours. We have no element. Nothing sustains us when we fall.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “For an hour, till greyness covered all, the water shone like milk and mother-of-pearl. The sea breathed quietly, like a sleeping dog.”

12. “For an hour, till greyness covered all, the water shone like milk and mother-of-pearl. The sea breathed quietly, like a sleeping dog.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “Terror seeks out the odd, and the sick, and the lost.”

13. “Terror seeks out the odd, and the sick, and the lost.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “Detailed landscapes are tedious. One part of England is superficially so much like another. The differences are subtle, coloured by love.”

14. “Detailed landscapes are tedious. One part of England is superficially so much like another. The differences are subtle, coloured by love.”

— J. A. Baker

$J. A. Baker Quote: “Fear releases power. Man might be more tolerable, less fractious and smug, if he had more to fear. I do not mean fear of the intangible, the suffocation of the introvert, but physical fear, cold sweating fear for one’s life, fear of the unseen menacing beast, imminent, bristly, tusked and terrible, ravening for one’s own hot saline blood.”$

15. “Fear releases power. Man might be more tolerable, less fractious and smug, if he had more to fear. I do not mean fear of the intangible, the suffocation of the introvert, but physical fear, cold sweating fear for one’s life, fear of the unseen menacing beast, imminent, bristly, tusked and terrible, ravening for one’s own hot saline blood.”

— J. A. Baker

J. A. Baker Quote: “I swooped through leicestershires of swift green light. A dazzling wetness of green fields irrigated the windswept eye.”

16. “I swooped through leicestershires of swift green light. A dazzling wetness of green fields irrigated the windswept eye.”

— J. A. Baker

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