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A series of prohibitions called the Law - I had already heard them recited - battled in their minds with the deep-seated, ever-rebellious cravings of their animal natures. This Law they were perpetually repeating, I found, and - perpetually breaking.


H.G. Wells


#nature

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.


Criss Jami


#approval #authority #blanket #brute-force #brutes

Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, housing developments,and parking lots? What happens to the natural history here? We must bear witness.


Joni L. James


#landscape #nature #wildness #nature

Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you’re alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet’s roundness arc between your feet.


Annie Dillard


#landscape #nature #walking #nature

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.


Enid Blyton


#enchanting #haze #island #june #mysterious

Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not.


Nahiyan bin Asadullah


#nature

Roy memang gemar kemping, kemana saja ia mau. Karena baginya tidak ada yang lebih menyenangkan selain berada di alam terbuka, menikmati keagungan Tuhan.


Gola Gong


#alam #balada-si-roy #nature #petualangan #nature

It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest....


Jan Morris


#wales #nature

There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up.


Charmian Hussey


#flowers #nature #plants #pleasure #nature

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.


Erwin Chargaff


#essays #language-literature #nature






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