#natur

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub. ↗

— Thomas More

#human-nature #opinions #love

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#business

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#god #nature #love

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#absolutely #accepting #every #feel #happiest

And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. ↗

— John Milton

#nature #soul #beauty

Can we love what will swallow us when we are gone? I do. ↗

— Linda Hogan

#love

The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor — not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies “out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#metaphor #mind #nature #change

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid. ↗

— Aberjhani

#existence #fear #human-nature #change

When the world has changed and the rivers run dry ad the forests grow brown will we realize that we don't run the world. We must understand that Nature is what helped us into this beautiful planet, so we must help her in return. ↗

— Veronica White

#nature #beauty

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#inside-out #change