#nat

It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family. ↗

— David Abram

#nature #trees #family

What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#fascinated #glory #me #public

Patience means restraining one's inclinations. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#means #patience #restraining

Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#both #certainly #discovered #immigration #issues

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#composition #country #ethnic #feeling #granted

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#america #called #could #feeling #intense

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#believe #god #man #many #nature

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#everywhere #i #i think #incomplete #nature

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#beings #eyes #forward #goal #human