Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
— Ursula Goodenough
The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.
— Ursula Goodenough
Life, we can now say, is getting something to happen against the odds, and remembering how to do it. — Ursula Goodenough
It's so awful and sad," she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, "to belong to a race that no sane person believes in. — Mary Norton
Am I good enough?Trust. — Tom
Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago. — Ursula Goodenough
