#den

I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#nature

Bjarne Møller, my former boss, says people like me always choose the line of most resistance. It's in what he calls our 'accursed nature'. That's why we always end up on our own. I don't know. I like being alone. Perhaps I have grown to like my self-image of being a loner, too....I think you have to find something about yourself that you like in order to survive. Some people say being alone is unsociable and selfish. But you're independent and you don't drag others down with you, if that's the way you're heading. Many people are afraid of being alone. But it made me feel strong, free and invulnerable. ↗

— Jo Nesbø

#loner #self-image #nature

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nature

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjöld

#nature #path #transcendence #nature

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#identity #nature #reality #love

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#hidden #nature #often #overcome #seldom

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#god #redemption #nature

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature #page-xxii #nature

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about. ↗

— David Hume

#nature

To be awake is to be alive. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #walden #nature