#ma

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#destruction #flawed #human-character #human-nature #nature

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. ↗

— Jane Austen

#nature

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural? ↗

— Bill Hicks

#nature

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. ↗

— Jules Verne

#brave #cannot #human #laws #may

لم يعد يدهشني الظلم ولا الغباء ولا الخوف ولا العناد ولا الجحود ولكن سأبقى دائمًا مندهشًا أمام قدرة الإنسان الفريدة على النسيان. آفة حارتنا. ↗

— بلال فضل

#oppression #nature

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humour #nature

Trees're always a relief, after people. ↗

— David Mitchell

#forest #humanity #nature #trees #nature

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#nature

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#instinct #learning #nature

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#mankind #naturalism #nature