#nature

Our bodies bound by space and time, under laws of nature. That's why we see life as if a journey in space that needs time. When we pass boundary, we'll see that life is a state of nature. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #simply-exist #state-of-nature #nature

It seems to me as natural annd necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#nature

In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it. ↗

— René Descartes

#infinity #limitations #reason #thought #nature

The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available light and moisture, tempering the climate and the temperaments of the Scots, as the driest land became moist and the wettest land became dry, seedlings finding a mean between extremes, and the trees constructing a moderate zone for themselves even into what I would have called tundra, until I understood the fact that Aristotle taught, while walking in a botanic garden, that the middle is fittest to discern the extremes. ("Interim") ↗

— William S. Wilson

#extremes #middle #nature #scotland #trees

آه لو رأيت حقول قصب السكر العالي أو زهر الكتان في الوانه الأزرق والبنفسجي، لو رأيت الأطفال يجمعون القطن في جيوب صنعوها من جلابيبهم كجيوب الكنغر، لو رأيت اشجار الصفصاف العتيقة وشعورها مدلاة في القنوات الجارية، والرهبان عائدين إلى صوامعهم في الأديرة، ونداء المؤذن يرتفع عالياً في السماء الضاربة إلى الاحمرار ساعة المغرب، فهذه أرض يتجلى فيها الله بلا انقطاع ↗

— Ahdaf Soueif

#nature #love

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#science #truth #nature

Man is the only creature in the process of evolution, that plays no role in maintaining the integrity of the earths pocessions, his only purpose was in fullfilling the needs of his own kind. ↗

— Moses Pereira

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But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others. ↗

— Heather Graham

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Parents should also question much of the contemporary emphasis on special materials and equipment for learning in a child's environment. A clutter of toys can be more confusing than satisfying to a child. On the other hand, natural situations, with opportunieties to explore, seldom overstimulate or trouble a small child. Furthermore, most children will find greater satisfaction and demonsstrate greater learning from things they make and do with their parents or other people than from elaborate toys or learning materials. And there is no substitute for solitude - in the sandpile, mud puddle, or play area - for a yound child to work out his own fantasies. Yet this privilege is often denied in our anxiety to institutionalize children. ↗

— Raymond S. Moore

#parents #teaching #nature

The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror which, when rubbed, regains its original purity and clarity. (217) ↗

— Edward Conze

#buddhism #nature