#natur

Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#page- #freedom

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. ↗

— George Carlin

#humor #stupidity #humor

They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#extinction #nature #page- #imagination

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#answer #because #bird #sing #sings

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#beneath #effectively #humanity #latent #live

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. ↗

— Henry Adams

#dream #law #man #nature #order

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. ↗

— Henry Adams

#education #end #human #human nature #knowledge

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature. ↗

— William Adams

#children #conscience #desiring #end #five

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#nature #thing #variable

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#life #may #only #out #say