#natur

Birth after birth the line unchanging runs, And fathers live transmitted in their sons; Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds, The same their manners, and the same their minds:Till, as erelong successive buds decay, And insect-shoals successive pass away, Increasing wants the pregnant parent vex With the fond wish to form a softer sex. .. ↗

— Erasmus Darwin

#brilliant #life #nature-s-grandeur #science #life

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. ↗

— Eugene Wigner

#complexities #expression #language #laws #natural

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#development #equal #equal right #equity #eternal

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#always #believe #end #i #i believe

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#chain #equal #exceptions #faith #hold

Naturally, I do things my own way but I'm certainly influenced by my mother's way of doing things. ↗

— Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

#doing #i #i do #influenced #mother

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#being #gregarious #hills #i #i love

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. ↗

— George Mason

#below #contemptible #degree #dignity #great

Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving, of falling light. Here on the river, as I lurch against a freshening of the current, is the practice of rivers. In navigating by the glow of the Milky Way, the practice of light. In steadying with a staff, the practice of wood. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#meditation #nature #practice #spirit #thought

How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along? ↗

— Rachel Klein

#life #supernatural #life