#natur

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? ↗

— E. M. Forster

#daily #daily lives #enter #good #into

Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts. ↗

— Lawrence Block

#weird #death

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#clear #doctrine #essential #found #gives

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#our #rediscover #remake #task

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#also #boston #college #conference #crash

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#dreams #human-nature #inspirational-quotes #john-galsworthy #nobel-laureate

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#his #man #mental #more #nature

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#advantage #changing #common #contribute #controlling

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#american #american music #answer #come #comfort

The Amen of nature is always a flower. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#amen #flower #nature