#at

They couldn't close out the whole world, maybe, but they could sure find something on their TV or radio to put scientists or foreigners or whatever they thought he was in a bad light. Truly, they were no better than the city people always looking down on southerners ... If people played their channels right, they could be spared from disagreement for the length of their natural lives. Finally she got it. The need for so many channels. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#nature

She walks to a table She walk to table She is walking to a table She walk to table now What difference does it make What difference it make In Nature, no completeness No sentence really complete thought Language, like woman, Look best when free, undressed. ↗

— Wang Ping

#syntax #woman #nature

Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#scene-iv #nature

Natural rights, nonsense; natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, elevated nonsense, nonsense going on stilts. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#nature

A new question for the psychotherapist to ask is whether a theory can go beyond mere effectiveness in achieving either a so-called cure or even personal growth into its implications for the nature of an evolving society. ↗

— Erving Polster

#therapy #nature

The only thing I worship is Nature ! ↗

— Laure Lacornette

#quote #worship #nature

The main thing I worship is Nature ! ↗

— Laure Lacornette

#quote #worship #nature

By “the Permanent Things” [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our nature, without which we are as the beasts that perish. They work upon us all in the sense that both they and we are bound up in that continuity of belief and institution called the great mysterious incorporation of the human race. ↗

— Russell Kirk

#human-nature #permanent-things #nature

The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature. ↗

— John Cannell

#health-and-fitness #medicine #nonfiction #nature

Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism. ↗

— Donna J. Haraway

#feminism #irony #linguistics #ontology #politcs