#na

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us. ↗

— Colin Meloy

#wildwood #nature

A valise without straps. A hole without a key. She had a German mouth, French ears, Russian ass. Cunt international. When the flag waved it was red all the way back to the throat. You entered on the Boulevard Jules-Ferry and came out at the Porte de la Villette. You dropped your sweetbreads into the tumbrils – red tumbrils with two wheels, naturally. At the confluence of the Ourcq and Marne, where the water sluices through the dikes and lies like glass under the bridges. ↗

— Henry Miller

#desire #sex #women #nature

The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore is that when it comes to figuring out which of those things are safe to eat, he's pretty much on his own. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature

You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone in the woods, men fuller of talk and rare adventure in the sun and wind and rain, than a chestnut is of meat; who were out not only in ‘75 and 1812, but have been out every day of their lives; greater men than Homer, or Chaucer, or Shakespeare, only they never got time to say so; they never took to the way of writing. Look at their fields, and imagine what they might write, if ever they should put pen to paper. Or what have they not written on the face of the earth already, clearing, and burning, and scratching, and harrowing, and plowing, and subsoiling, in and in, and out and out, and over and over, again and again, erasing what they had already written for want of parchment. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#inspirational-life #life-philosophy #nature #transcendence #work

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times. ↗

— Henry James

#greatness #occasion #self #truth #nature

Look back on Time, with kindly eyes - He doubtless did his best - How softly sinks that trembling sun In Human Nature's West - ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#time #nature

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats. ↗

— Wil McCarthy

#nature-of-things #point-of-view #protagonists #universe #nature

Second letter from Mom: So! What if you colored the world? This still does not seem a great thing. In fact it seems very natural that you eventually got to paint the entire world. Those colors of yours were always strange; they didn’t go away since you were born. ↗

— Elena D. Calin

#colors #great-things #letter-from-mom #nature

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#chaos #surprise #nature

I need to say this – you shouldn't trust any government, actually including this one. You should not trust government – full stop. The natural inclination of government is to hoard power and information; to accrue power to itself in the name of the public good. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#liberalism #nature