#natur

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. ↗

— John Paul Jones

#inexorable #inflexible #law #nature #risk

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it. ↗

— Norah Jones

#always #discipline #feel #felt #had

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#beautiful #does #ear #echoing #eggs

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#enlarging #expression #impressionists #innovations #led

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#become #before #deal #fully #great

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#nothing #unworthy #wholly

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#bound #could #forever #his #innate

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood. ↗

— Roland Emmerich

#besides #comment #destruction #force #gets

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#great #held #honor #interprets #man