#natur

In America, alas, beauty has become something you drive to, and nature an either/or proposition--either you ruthlessly subjugate it, as at Tocks Dam and a million other places, or you deify it, treat it as something holy and remote, a thing apart, as along the Appalachian Trail. Seldom would it occur to anyone on either side that people and nature could coexist to their mutual benefit--that, say, a more graceful bridge across the Delaware River might actually set off the grandeur around it, or that the AT might be more interesting and rewarding if it wasn't all wilderness, if from time to time it purposely took you past grazing cows and till fields. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#nature #beauty

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else. ↗

— Toni Collette

#becoming #being #challenge #else #fantastically

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#dispose #fuller #gives #imperfections #learning

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. ↗

— John Coltrane

#communion #feel #get #laws #musician

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#nature #our #repose #truest #water

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#deny #face #family #heritage #more

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#arranged #classified #facts #general #knowledge

If in this life only we have hope....." By God, that was true, too. This quickening divine power that he had experienced could not be confined to this world, for cruel, sordid, ugly, devilish can be this world, and by the nature of things that power could have neither source nor ending in it; only flow through it, around it, over it, under it, gathering up the gold into its eternal shining and burning the dross in its fire. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#hope #life #nature

There is so much beauty in the world, but you must allow yourself to see it. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#nature #beauty

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. ↗

— Frances Burney

#easily #mind #naturally #pleasure #prone