#nature

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor. ↗

— William Ames

#duty #good #joined #known #least

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ↗

— Hans Christian Anderson

#enough #flower #freedom #just #just living

I live alone," he said simply. "I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patterns of the pine boughs against the sky. With sound and silence and color and solitude, of course I see visions. Anyone would." "But you don't believe in them?" Doc asked hopefully. "I don't find it a matter for belief or disbelief," the seer said. "You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks into the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself everytime that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it? Don't you see visions?" "No," said Doc. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#nature #visions #beauty

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand. ↗

— Princess Anne

#hand #nature #pest #very #you

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#becomes #concepts #his #longer #lost

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#men #monotony #nature #poets #soon

Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branches of the little redbud. It made me feel like I was saying a prayer, to do this. I know that sounds like foolishness, but that little tree was like an altar for me. I stood there in the cold of early winter, wishing for the redbud to bear leaves so that I might put my face against them. ↗

— Silas House

#prayer #trees #nature

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. ↗

— Sai Baba

#glory #god #into #look #message

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#form #identifying #important #important step #latter