#human

On the whole, all people are good, or at least they're normal. The frightening thing is that they can suddenly turn bad when it comes to the crunch. ↗

— Sōseki Natsume

#nature

I once got lost in a dark woods with no supplies. Struggling to deal with nature, beasts and storms, that was time when I lost my arrogance as human. ↗

— Toba Beta

#bullshit #human #nature

As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#humans #jessica-darling #significance #nature

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. ↗

— Martin Cruz Smith

#humanity #nature #nuclear #nuclear-war #pollution

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours. ↗

— Mira Grant

#nature

I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye. ↗

— David Mitchell

#human-nature #nature

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? ↗

— Robert Ardrey

#human-nature #science #nature

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#nature

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#common-sense #curiosity #deadly-sins #faults #gold

And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any "natural explanation" offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on. ↗

— Anne Rice

#nature