#end

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

When man chooses to develop his innate power of communication with nature and therefore hear the voice, all will be right with the world – we will be as one. What you have been able to do with your Modoc is what man has been seeking for a long time. To communicate with nature through animals. ↗

— Ralph Helfer

#friendship-true-and-loyal #love-for-animals #love-for-nature #nature #communication

If people think nature is their friend then they sure don't need an enemy. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#friends #nature #nature

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#had #heard #his #man #naked

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#community #integrity #otherwise #preserve #right

When people get into their 30s plus "boyfriend" sounds weird...if you really think about it. Instead, I think we should universally start using the term "manfriend" or "snookie bookie cuddles pie". ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#comedy #comedy-humor #humor #manfriend #nonsense

There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is "sympathy" - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#friendship #passion #relationship

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#ask #attend #because #become #cravings

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. ↗

— Henry Miller

#anyone #belief #destiny #enough #great

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#life #love #romance #death