#natur

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#faith #god #nature #faith

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#christianity #god #nature #trinity #faith

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inaugural-address #us-presidents #nature

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ↗

— Socrates

#philosophy #nature

Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”) ↗

— George Sterling

#graveyard #horror #scary #supernatural #trees

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#learned #nature #stylish #work

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. ↗

— Eric Berne

#birds #boy #concerned #hear #jay

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#eat #fishes #great #great ones #little

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#fantasy #genre #horror #supernatural #writing

This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#nature