#natur

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. ↗

— Helen Garner

#began #easily #fall #fell #fulfilment

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. ↗

— Helen Garner

#development #going #interest #like #me

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#brook #compulsion #dictates #disposed #englishmen

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#everything #future #human #human nature #looks

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven. ↗

— Walter Lang

#animal #animal life #before #entropy #exactly

For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#claims #determined #development #nature #only

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#become #center #children #longer #mother

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#idea #me #opposed #selfishness #unnatural

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#cold #crack #games #i #jokes

Finally, a twenty-two old girl was dazzled by the world's brightness and kept her eyes shut for two weeks. When at the end of that time she opened her eyes again, she did not recognize any objects, but, "the more she now directed her gaze upon everything about her, the more it could be seen as an expression of gratification and astonishment overspread her features; she repeatedly exclaimed, 'Oh God! How beautiful! ↗

— Ann Dillard

#pilgrim-at-tinker-creek #beauty