#nat

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. ↗

— John Muir

#destroyed #generally #gross #nature #poetry

This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself. ↗

— Malia Ann Haberman

#chase-tinker #ideas #imagination #magic #thoughts

[T]o give the children a sense of magic. Nobody attends to this enough. They give them too much realism. They can see it all on the box, they can see frightful things there. But they’re not being given a world to escape to … the world of the imagination. Children must have an escape line somewhere. ↗

— Nicholas Stuart Gray

#imagination

If you've never come across Soccer Saturday, imagine a Samuel Beckett play in which a slick circus-master gets four retired clowns to describe a performance to punters stuck outside the Big Top. You will still be nowhere close to the absurcist drama that unfolds for six straight hours each Saturday on Sky Sports 1 ↗

— Esquire Magazine

#imagination

Trite though it (used to) sound, real sexuality is about our struggles to connect with one another, to erect bridges across the chasms that separate selves. Sexuality is, finally, about imagination. Thanks to brave people's recognition of AIDS as a fact of life, we are beginning to realize that highly charged sex can take place in all sorts of ways we'd forgotten or neglected—in a conversational nuance; in a body's posture, a certain pressure in a held hand. Sex can be everywhere we are, all the time. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#back-in-new-fire #knight #princess #sex #imagination

Il ne s'agit point de t'offusquer de ce que l'un diffère de l'autre, de ce que les aspirations de l'un s'opposent aux aspirations de l'autre, de ce que le langage de l'un ne soit point le langage de l'autre, il s'agît de t'en réjouir. Car si te voilà créateur tu batiras un temple de portée plus haute qui sera leur commune mesure. Mais je dis aveugle celui-là qui s'imagine créer s'il démonte la cathédrale et aligne dans l'ordre par rang de taille les pierres l'une après l'autre. (chapitre LXXV) ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#society #imagination

It is not that what you can imagine depends on what you know, but that what you know depends on what you can imagine. The history of science couldn't be clearer on this point, and, therefore, Dennett is a sophist. ↗

— Jesse Lopes

#imagination

I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me. ↗

— Kate Mulgrew

#am #been #certainly #fond #generous

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information. ↗

— Michael Mullen

#apparatus #classified #classified information #full #got

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#devices #electronic #fascinated #i #mess