#natur

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#nature

In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#compassion #god #hope #nature

I do not understand what I do....It is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me...For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do - this I keep on doing...I find this law at work: when I want to do good, evil is right there with me...I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin...I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. ↗

— Anonymous

#nature

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about. ↗

— David Hume

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Nature awakens in brilliant colors of autumn, making me wish winter would bid adieu. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#morning #nature #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sunrise

A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

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It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible.  Why?  Because innately we know that nothing's impossible. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#human-nature #impossibility #impossible #innate #richelle

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist. ↗

— Émile Zola

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#gertrude-stein #information #natural #nature

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. ↗

— Willa Cather

#prairie #trees #nature