#natur

Si l'homme rit, s'il est le seul, parmi le règne animal, à exhiber cette atroce déformation faciale, c'est également qu'il est le seul, dépassant l'égoïsme de la nature animale, à avoir atteint le stade infernal et suprême de la cruauté. ↗

— Michel Houellebecq

#humanité #rire #égoïsme #nature

The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect. ↗

— Charles Nodier

#nature

There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#nature

Throughout the shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet dight with such fearful fascination, as the vampire, who is himself neither ghost nor demon, but yet who partakes the dark natures and and possesses the mysterious and terrible qualities of both. ↗

— Montague Summers

#nature

There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild. ↗

— Bernd Heinrich

#nature

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul. ↗

— Quentin Bell

#nature

Snob corrupted. ↗

— Toba Beta

#nature #snob #nature

Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive. ↗

— Frederick Turner

#nature #western-philosophy #nature

Never judge or discourage anyone who makes continued progress,no matter how show nature does not hurry,yet everything is accomplished ↗

— anonumous

#nature

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be taken...a matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice. ↗

— Nahoko Uehashi

#obliviousness #survival #nature