#natur

If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison. ↗

— Bruce Chatwin

#nature-of-man #nomad #pascal #walkabout #home

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you. ↗

— Frances Wright

#believe #examine #faith #grounds #i

It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#creation #nature #poetry #architecture

Attitude is a state of mind that results in an action taken or an emotion displayed. Attitude, in the end, is a motivator or that which generates or reflects motives. ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#made-in-the-image-of-god #metaphysics #nature-of-god #nature-of-man #reid-ashbaucher

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#bold #challenge #counterfeit #hath #her

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. ↗

— Herbert Read

#balance #efficiency #forms #general #greatest

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#inspiration #beauty

...The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion; if you want to live in the paradise where happy mares and stallion live, open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#beauty

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude. ↗

— Pat Riley

#effort #great #great attitude #naturally #springs

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#cannot #confidence #confirms #designer #dreams