#natur

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#also #art #attention #carefully #classical

I believe in living healthily and sustainably, and looking to nature for renewal and inspiration. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#healthily #healthy #inspiration #nature #renewal

A tree never feels how much fragrance it spreads. It's just its nature to be like that. ↗

— Moazzam Shaikh

#life #nature #inspirational

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question -- not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#cruelty #deism #disaster #god #jehovah

People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes climate and weather. It holds most of life on earth. 97% of earth's water is there. It's the blue heart of the planet — we should take care of our heart. It's what makes life possible for us. We still have a really good chance to make things better than they are. They won't get better unless we take the action and inspire others to do the same thing. No one is without power. Everybody has the capacity to do something. ↗

— Sylvia A. Earle

#conservation #marine #nature #ocean #sea

Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill ↗

— L.P. Hartley

#supernatural #experience

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#happiness #human #human-nature #humanism #humanity

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#inspirational #literature #motivational #trust #inspirational

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#causation #cause-and-effect #chance #darwinism #inspirational

Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we “happen” to encounter. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#infinity #inspiration #metaphysical #paranormal #supernatural