#m

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#drama #green #literature #nature #poetry

There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink. ↗

— Clay Griffith

#mind-thoughts #secrecy #nature

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#music #practice #success #music

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

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#fascism #nature

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be. ↗

— Julien Smith

#behavior #habits #natural #normal #norms

There are no real personalities apart from God. Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self. Sameness is to be found most among the most 'natural' men, not among those who surrender to Christ. How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerers have been; how gloriously different are the saints. But there must be a real giving up of the self. You must throw it away 'blindly' so to speak. Christ will indeed give you a real personality; but you must not go to Him for the sake of that. As long as your own personality is what you are bothering about you are not going to Him at all. The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him...Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#men

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid. ↗

— Ken Follett

#human-nature #sheep #nature

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#nature

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim. ↗

— Robert J. Sawyer

#killers #murder #nature