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Time is nature's way of preventing everything from happening at once. ↗

— Meredith Etherington-Smith

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I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#travel #nature

Sixty three sunsets I saw revolve on that perpendicular hill – mad raging sunsets pouring in sea foams of cloud through unimaginable crags like the crags you grayly drew in pencil as a child, with every rose-tint of hope beyond, making you feel just like them, brilliant and bleak beyond words. – ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#sunsets #nature

This was a cruelty made by history. Long after serfdom had been abolished the land captains exercised their right to flog the peasants for petty crimes. Liberals rightly warned about the psychological effects of this brutality. One physician, addressing the Kazan Medical Society in 1895 said that it 'not only debases but even hardens and brutalizes human nature'. Chekhov, who was also a practising physician, denounced corporal punishment, adding that 'it coarsens and brutalizes not only the offenders but also those who execute the punishments and those who are present at it'. ↗

— Orlando Figes

#corporal-punishment #nature

The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#non-being #nature

Quizá tampoco pueda decirse que soy un tipo corriente, pero raro no soy. Soy una persona extremadamente cabal, a mi manera. Muy directa. Directa como una flecha. Soy yo mismo de un modo sumamente natural e inevitable. Dado que es un hecho evidente, no me importa demasiado lo que los demás piensen de mí. La manera en que los demás me ven no me atañe. Más bien, eso es algo que sólo les atañe a ellos ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#dance #murakami #nature

Sì, però, sbarcati in Europa, anche qui è come essere in un documentario perpetuo, dove vedi tutto pulito, ordinato, levigato, glossy, flashing, rifatto a nuovo, neanche uno scarto troppo vistoso, una macchina troppo squinternata, una persona veramente sdentata, un vestito davvero fuori moda, un negozio che sia rimasto come cinque anni fa, una vetrina con libri che non siano novità assolute. Andiamo in giro per Parigi e vediamo soltanto quest'altro documentario del nuovo totale, senza più niente di precario, di povero, decaduto, rimediato, tarlato dal vento, scartato dal destino. È il documentario della simulazione globale, senza luogo, senza scampo, che ci mostrano a titolo pubblicitario notte e giorno, dietro lo schermo di vetro che abbiamo in dotazione per vivere da queste parti. Ma poi si sa che quando uno è lasciato dietro a un vetro, tende a sentire che gli manca qualcosa, anche se ha tutto e non gli manca niente, e questa mancanza di niente forse conta qualcosa, perché uno potrebbe anche accorgersi di non aver bisogno davvero di niente, tranne del niente che gli manca davvero, del niente che non si può comprare, del niente che corrisponde a niente, il niente del cielo o dell'universo, o il niente che hanno gli altri che non hanno niente. ↗

— Gianni Celati

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In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled nature. In such surroundings- occasional as our visits may be- we can achieve that kind of physical and spiritual renewal that comes alone from the wonder of the natural world. ↗

— Laurance S. Rockefeller

#spirituality #nature

But gardening is none of that, really. Strip away the gadgets and the techniques, the books and the magazines and the soil test kits, and what you're left with, at the end of the day, is this: a stretch of freshly turned dirt, a handful of seeds scratched into the surface, and a marker to remember where they went. It is at the same time an incredibly brave and an incredibly simple thing to do, entrusting your seeds to the earth and waiting for them to rise up out of the ground to meet you. ↗

— Amy Stewart

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