#nat

When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry. ↗

— Brian Richardson

#worry #nature

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties ↗

— John Muir

#wilderness #love

And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#nature

Xander: I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away. ↗

— Dana Reston

#danger #fear #human-nature #humour #nature

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285) ↗

— Don DeLillo

#nature

Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#nature

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#logic #nature #nature

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#brooks #creation #destruction #earth #environment

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language ↗

— Jane Austen

#novels #reading #nature

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#celia #nature #poetry #nature