#nature

Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself, walking with the alignment that only comes after miles, the loose diagonal rhythm of arms swinging in synchronization with legs in a body that felt long and stretched out, almost as sinuous as a snake…when you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#travel #walking #nature

If we learn to read the birds-and their behaviors and vocalizations-through them, we can read the world at large... if we replace collision with connection, learn to read these details, feel at home, relax, and are respectful--ultimately the birds will yield to us the first rite of passage: a close encounter with an animal otherwise wary of our presence. ↗

— Jon Young

#nature #home

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#history #human-nature #humor #reality #humor

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#love #relationships #love

Penny: But, he turned out to be really sweet. Sometimes people are layered like that. There’s something totally different underneath than what’s on the surface. Dr Horrible: And sometimes there’s a third even deeper level and that’s the same as the top surface one. Penny: Huh? Dr Horrible: Like with pie. ↗

— 'Dr Horrible' writers

#human-nature #humor #snark #humor

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#humor

I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#god #integrity #love #nature #love

Nature is Satan's church. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#nature

Like a true Nature's child, we were born, born to be wild ↗

— Steppenwolf

#nature