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The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#nature #nature

Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carpet of tiny, ecstatic spiders. ↗

— Tove Jansson

#nature #summer #nature

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#insomniac #nature

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#destruction #flawed #human-character #human-nature #nature

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature. ↗

— Rachel Hartman

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Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#ya #nature

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. ↗

— Jane Austen

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You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan ↗

— Rick Riordan

#pan #nature

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#storytelling #nature

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural? ↗

— Bill Hicks

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