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#nat

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When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. ↗


— Criss Jami


#bad-people #compassion #compassionate #comprehend #comprehending

In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size & the earlier your place on the tree of life, the more critical is your niche on Earth: snails & worms create soil, & blue-green algae create oxygen; mammals seem comparatively dispensable, the result of the random path of evolution over a luxurious amount of time. ↗


— Elisabeth Tova Bailey


#natural-history #non-fiction #life

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations. ↗


— Zoe Weil


#education #humane #mogo #nation #patriot

A frown lowered his brow as he headed toward the shower, stripping as he went. She was untried. Virginal in mind and spirit. The innocence that hovered about her, disparate with her wily reporter persona, teased Adrian’s senses like an aphrodisiac. She wasn’t the kind of woman who could give away sex without giving away her heart, and he liked that in her, that vulnerability. It was, at the very core, something new and different in his world. It also stood as a reminder of another time, when he believed in the wholesomeness, the rightness of desire. Desire earned and given freely, not bought, before he knew its worth could be meted out in paper currency. She was hot-blooded and sensuous too, and didn’t seem aware of it. It called to the primal male in him, made him restless and hungry to touch her. But tonight a deeper part of him had won out, preserved the strange wholesomeness between them and shielded it from the anomaly his lifestyle had become because of sex. Maybe, at the very bottom of it, he knew a whore—even a high-priced one—didn’t deserve a woman like Billie. She was reality, gritty and truthful and tangible. He…he was a phantom born out of Azure Elan’s sensuous imagination. ↗


— Shelby Reed


#shelby-reed #the-fifth-favor #imagination

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. ↗


— George Eliot


#initiative #positivity #rose

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation. ↗


— Al Franken


#bush #foreign-policy #iraq #nation-building #politics

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ↗


— Rumi


#consolation #grief #loss #reincarnation #loss

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. ↗


— Frank Herbert


#nations #politics #creation

then things got even stranger. Mr. Brunner, who'd been out in front of the museum a minute before, wheeled his chair into the doorway of the gallery, holding a pen in his hand. "What ho, Percy!" he shouted, and tossed the pen through the air. Mrs. Dodds lunged at me. With a yelp, I dodged and felt talons slash the air next to my ear. I snatched the ballpoint pen out of the air, but when it hit my hand, it wasn't a pen anymore. It was a sword-Mr. Brunner's bronze sword, which he always used on tourement day. Mrs. Dodds spun toward me with a murderous look in her eyes. My knees were jelly. My hands were shaking so bad I almost dropped the sword. She snarled, "Die, honey!" And she flew straight at me. Absolute terror ran through my body. I did the only thing that came naturally:I swung the sword. The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed through her body as if she were made made of water. Hisss! Mrs. Dodds was a sand castle in a power fan. She exploded into yellow powder, vaporized on the spot, leaving nothing but the smell of sulfur and a dying screech and a chill of evil in the air, as if those two glowing red eyes were still watching me. ↗


— Rick Riordan


#olympians #pen #percy-jackson #nature

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't. ↗


— Sarah Dessen


#yearning #hate






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