#natur

Nothing leads to good that is not natural. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#leads #natural #nothing

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#days #distance #emotional #every #exchanging

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#body #climbing #directly #even #i

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#began #climbed #experiencing #explored #high

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

#interpreters #nature #other #retreats #rival

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death. ↗

— Tom McMillan

#been #conquering #death #nature #now

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#father #i #me #music #musician

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#come #deluded #i #inhumane #mentality

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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