#nat

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#hopes #humiliation #life #nature #perspective

He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish. ↗

— John Vaillant

#life #nature #life

Motherhood doesn't have a nationality ↗

— Melinda Cross

#child #country #harlequin #life #mom

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899) ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#environment #life-lessons #nature #life

Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#nature #philosophy-of-life #life

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers. ↗

— Yann Martel

#humans #people #life

This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur. ↗

— David Attenborough

#life

…nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science. ↗

— Yann Martel

#science #life

Life - with or without softener- is hard ↗

— Kate Papas

#divorce #greece #humor #international #marriage

...the laws of nature have continually all my life offended me more than anything. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#life