#nature

Plants or animals rarely behave in an unnatural manner that’s contrary to their true makeup. Human beings are also natural beings, but at the same time, we’re conscious entities. We therefore have free will and must make the choice not merely to be part of nature, but also to follow faithfully the “laws of nature. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#laws-of-nature #meditation #natural #nature #yoga

People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: "There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#happiness #human-nature #sadness #self-realization #freedom

Vlinders zijn de meest vergankelijke, gracieuze schepsels ter wereld. Ze worden uit het niets geboren, verlangen stilletjes naar iets heel kleins en beperkts, om uiteindelijk weer als in het niets te verdwijnen. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#impact #inspirational #nature #freedom

The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice... ↗

— Henry Lindell

#human-nature #illusion #freedom

Symbols, for me and for many, of freedom, whether it be from the prison of over-dense communities and the close confines of human relationships, from the less complex incarceration of office walls and hours, or simply freedom from the prison of adult life and an escape into the forgotten world of childhood, of the individual or the race. For I am convinced that man has suffered in his separation from the soil and from the other living creatures of the world; the evolution of his intellect has outrun his needs as an animal, and as yet he must still, for security, look long at some portion of the earth as it was before he tampered with it. ↗

— Gavin Maxwell

#nature #scotland #freedom

I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

#humor #weather #humor

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines! ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#goethe #history #history-of-mankind #history-repeating-itself #human-nature

The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden fairy weight of seeds, grown in sweetness that is also a darkness. Like treasure in a cave. ↗

— Jody Shields

#fig #fruit #fruit-tree #mystery #nature

All this, grassy paddock, cows, trees - he had thought it was Nature. But now he could see that that was ignorance, or lack of imagination. It was not Nature. It was actually property. ↗

— Kate Grenville

#imagination

We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it. ↗

— Paolo Bacigalupi

#life #nature #potential #inspirational