#nat

Naturally, this country can't stand truth. ↗

— Lewis H. Michaux

#nature

I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars. I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand. ↗

— Toba Beta

#men #nature #sinned #men

mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another. ↗

— Voltaire

#nature

It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.... ↗

— Jan Morris

#wales #nature

Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You can get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#sailing #nature

For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have also spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing that thing. ↗

— Meg Jay

#psychology #twentysomethings #nature

I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard, to a certain degree, against everything that might destroy or disorder it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#philosophy #nature

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #euphemism #literature #literature-quotes #nature

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#human-nature #responsibility #television #world #nature

The machines are too dull when we are lion-poems that move & breathe. ↗

— Michael McClure

#lion #machines #nature #poems #poetry