#nature

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#lend #nature #neighbours #trouble #your

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#could #end #fulfilling #greek #his

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#go #i #i think #man #nature

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#activity #been #being #channel #crippled

At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#landscape #life #nature #wisdom #beauty

If you were silent Flight of herons on dark sky... Oh! Autumn snowflakes! ↗

— Sokan

#herons #nature-s-beauty #beauty

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#beings #creates #exploits #human #human beings

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#flower #grow #i #life #mind

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature. ↗

— Bai Ling

#beautiful #came #close #eye #felt

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties. ↗

— Aberjhani

#human-nature #humanity #identity #mirrors #personal-identity