#nature

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#fighting #human-nature #human-superiority #humanity #unfairness

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think the unstoppable juggernaut which is global warming demonstrates that processing natural materials on an industrial scale is a suicidal practice. ↗

— David David Katzman

#industry #marx #marxism #nature

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. ↗

— Mark Twain

#nature

The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere. ↗

— S. Kelley Harrell

#shamanism #totemism #nature

Although he assumed she’d naturally submit to him, he obviously believed she was still her own person. A strong person. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#erotic #erotic-romance #nature

You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug ↗

— R.L. Stine

#say-cheese-and-die #nature

If you stop at Nature, she will elude you forever. ↗

— The Marquis de Sade

#nature

The waters of the stream played the part of the orchestra, and the sunlight provided the dancers. Every now and then a crescendo of wind highlighted the symphony in the clearing by the creek. ↗

— Edward Mooney Jr.

#nature #music

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. ↗

— Maimonides

#habit #ideas #opinions #thought #views

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#simple-minds #nature