#nat

How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light ↗

— Mary Oliver

#nature #poetry #death

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#micawber #procrastination #classics

Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#nationalism

You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#comes #emotions #hard #just #living

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#catholicism #christ #christianity #god #incarnation

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. ↗

— Andrew Thomson

#peacekeeping #thought-provoking #un #thought-provoking

I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from; I knew where I was going. ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#dreams #love #reincarnation #soulmates #death

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#draw #grows #inclination #limit #look

Where does naturally goodness begins? ↗

— Nadair Desmar

#natural #nature

What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal – peace. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#consequences #direction #eternal-peace #external-peace #internal-peace