#nat

We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the building we cover them with will stand as promises of the highest and most intelligent kinds of happiness. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#homes #houses #land #nature #architecture

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. ↗

— David Sedaris

#apartment #art #basement #both #civilizations

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#nature #poetry #suicide #art

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.
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— Jarod Kintz

#artists #humor #illuminate #inform #show

An idea is salvation by imagination ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#imagination #inspirational #art

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. ↗

— Don Roff

#funny #humor #inspirational #life #nature

The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie – "not just sketches, but real art". She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, "God painting His storyboard on the sky". ↗

— Bethany Hamilton

#nature #art

Inside Critics The critical voices in our own heads are far more vicious than what we might hear from the outside. Our "inside critics" have intimate knowledge of us and can zero in on our weakest spots. You might be told by the critics that you're too fat, too old, too young, not intelligent enough, a quitter, not logical, prone to try too many things... It's all balderdash! Some elements of these may be true, and it's completely up to you how they affect you. Inside critics are really just trying to protect you. You can: Learn to dialogue with them. Give them new jobs. Turn them into allies. You can also dismantle/exterminate them. ↗

— S.A.R.K.

#creativity #dreaming #procrastination #writing #art

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite? ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#nature #society #art

I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creation #god #miracles #nature #wonders