#natur

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#supernatural #supernatural

Your half-caf, double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis. ↗

— Eric Kripke

#supernatural #supernatural

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#success #supernatural

Now, it would be wholly foolish to deny the existence of laws of nature. And if that is what we are talking about when we say God, then no one can possibly be an atheist, or at least anyone who would profess atheism would have to give a coherent argument about why the laws of nature are inapplicable. I think he or she would be hard-pressed. So with this latter definition of God, we all believe in God. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#experience

No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#destruction-of-nature #environmentalism #human-experience #human-nature #experience

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fiction #supernatural #urban-fantasy #vampire #supernatural

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. The Chiense say that we live in the world of ten thousand things. Each of the ten thousand things cries out to us precisely nothing. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#listening #nature #life

For that matter, all this, is there a God? Corlis -- I don't care!" "Huh," I considered. "I guess I don't either". "Most people don't! All they care about," he added grimly, "is being right". ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#family

Living erotically is opening oneself up to nature-- externally and within. ↗

— Kristie LeVangie

#erotic-living #eroticism #experience #life #life-experiences

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know. ↗

— Ted Chiang

#knowledge #science-fiction #sf #writing #nature