Naturalism & Realism

For my American Lit final, we had to define Naturalism and Realism, using quotes from authors:

Naturalism:

"For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you"- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. "-Jack London

“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.”-Hamlin Garland

"Vinnie [Dickinson's sister] rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day"- Emily Dickinson

“The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers”- Bret Harte

"Her seductive voice, together with his great love for her, had enthralled his sense, had deprived him of every impulse but the longing to hold her and keep her"- Kate Chopin, The Awakening

"Yet, man, in his simplicity and complacency and inability to cipher, thinks nature regards him as the important member of the family-- in fact, her favorite. Surely, it must occur to even his dull head, sometimes, that she has a curious way of showing it" - Mark Twain, Following the Equator

"I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the co-adaptations between all organic things. . ."- Charles Darwin

"When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples. " — Stephen Crane

Realism
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away"- Philip K. Dick

"In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, 'Is it good, friend?'
'It is bitter -- bitter,' he answered,
'But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.'"
— Stephen Crane

"If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time"- Edith Wharton

" Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned. "-Charles W. Chesnutt

"And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body. "-Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“To be hanged and drown that is not so bad; but I do not wish to be shot. No; I will not be shot; that is not fair"-Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

"You go through life like a perambulating prayer-wheel, a friend of nobody but the righteous, and the righteous are those who agree with you as to what is right"- Jack London, The House of Pride

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain"- Mark Twain

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails"- William Arthur Ward

"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed"- Henry James