#natur

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don’t push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction. ↗

— Hyman G. Rickover

#open-mindedness #nature

I am a conservationist by nature (higher fauna only), but when queasiness descends, the real becomes embellished, if not entirely elusive. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#reality #nature

She found it curious and frightening that she could deeply dislike someone she didn’t even know. It wasn’t her. At least, it wasn’t how she used to be. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#teaser #nature

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#nature

If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#nature #nature

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#nature #nature

...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#nature

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#power #wisdom #nature

Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn't be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at Pandemonium. After I spent the past three days wondering if you were dead." "I was not shacking up," Clary said, glad of the darkness as the blood rushed to her face. "And my hair is naturally blond," said Jace. "Just for the record." Simon, Clary, and Jace, pg. 115 ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #simon-lewis #nature

Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry.” “Leo, that’s Snow White,” Piper said. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#gaea #leo-valdez #piper-mclean #nature