Anna Lee WaldoI always know what to expect of the things of Mother Earth. Sometimes they are cruel, but it is hard, clean cruelty. They don’t torture you with their own weakness.
About This Quote
In the quote above, Alice Munro is speaking of the cruelty that humans inflict on animals. She uses the words “hard, clean cruelty” to describe it. This is cruel because it is something that you would not expect from Mother Earth. It is not something that she would do to herself or to us.
Instead, it is cruel because it is something that we do to her. The person who wrote the quote understands this about human cruelty and recognizes that it does not make sense for Mother Earth to act like this. Instead, only humans act like this.
Source: Sacajawea
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