#fore

Trees're always a relief, after people. ↗

— David Mitchell

#forest #humanity #nature #trees #nature

People are always looking for magic, when the natural world holds true miracles ↗

— Avery Williams

#magic #miracles #world #nature

In die Natur hineingehen und in dieser Natur ein- und ausatmen und in dieser Natur nichts als tatsächlich und für immer Zuhause zu sein, das empfände er als das höchste Glück. In den Wald gehen, tief in den Wald hinein, sagte der Burgschauspieler, sich gänzlich dem Wald überlassen, das ist es immer gewesen, der Gedanke, nichts anderes, als selbst Natur zu sein. ↗

— Thomas Bernhard

#nature #nature

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#any #begins #conference #death #defend

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#murder #mystery #science #science

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born. ↗

— Martha Stewart

#before #born #even #good #good thing

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#foreign lands #lands #only #traveler #who

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#time

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. (Act 4, Scene 1) ↗

— William Shakespeare

#macbeth #acting

Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#foreboding #scary #children