#natur

The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#fire #juniper #nature #nature-writing #equality

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#believe #cannot #cooperation #gone #human

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#environment #foreign #guys #home #home life

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#bias #ideology #religion #nature

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#achieve #against #goodness #little #mere

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#master #nature #talents

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#freedom #intelligent #laws #lies #mysteries

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to. ↗

— William Weld

#going #incentive #individual #natural #natural resources

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#because #crippled #documentary #documentary film #essentials