#nature

There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#nature

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees... ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#earth #love #nature #love

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#drama #green #literature #nature #poetry

There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink. ↗

— Clay Griffith

#mind-thoughts #secrecy #nature

When man chooses to develop his innate power of communication with nature and therefore hear the voice, all will be right with the world – we will be as one. What you have been able to do with your Modoc is what man has been seeking for a long time. To communicate with nature through animals. ↗

— Ralph Helfer

#friendship-true-and-loyal #love-for-animals #love-for-nature #nature #communication

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#fascism #nature

Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it. ↗

— Baden Powell

#nature #scouts #nature

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be. ↗

— Julien Smith

#behavior #habits #natural #normal #norms

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid. ↗

— Ken Follett

#human-nature #sheep #nature

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him. ↗