#natur

Perhaps it's natural for a father, for every parent, to see in his child all that's unspoiled and good. ↗

— Vaddey Ratner

#nature

Music lets you write your own checks. Don't ever forget that. ↗

— Jason Jack Miller

#appalachian-fiction #deal-with-the-devil #jason-jack-miller #murder-ballads-and-whiskey #supernatural

Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#nature #summer #music

A fish cannot drown in water, A bird does not fall in air. In the fire of creation, God doesn't vanish: The fire brightens. Each creature God made must live in its own true nature; How could I resist my nature, That lives for oneness with God? ↗

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

#god #inner-nature #transcendence #wind #nature

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative ↗

— John Burroughs

#nature

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance... ↗

— Annie Dillard

#stillness #nature

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you. ↗

— Philip G. Zimbardo

#human-nature #psychology #nature

I am only human, although I regret it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#nature

The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to fallen televangelists but to each of us. We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others. They are to be taken personally by each of us. This is the form and shape of Christian Pharisaism in our time. Hypocrisy is not hte prerogative of people in high places. The most impoverished among us is capable of it. Hypocrisy is the natural expression of what is meanest in us all. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#pharisee #ragamuffin #nature

Una de las cosas más agradables de la vida: ver cómo se filtra el sol entre las hojas ↗

— Mario Benedetti

#spanish #nature