#natur

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#fact #ideal #in fact #nature #parks

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. ↗

— Napolean Hill

#great #nature #plan #prepare #responsibilities

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#artist #contact #creates #creation #different

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. ↗

— Ian Hunter

#i think #instead #more #nature #observers

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cosmos #divorced #each #fractured #fragmented

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#death

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#another #egg #hen #making #only

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#air #air force #experience #extension #faster

By nature I'm not a brooder. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#nature

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#apt #beautiful #came #her #human