#nature

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul. ↗

— Quentin Bell

#nature

Snob corrupted. ↗

— Toba Beta

#nature #snob #nature

Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive. ↗

— Frederick Turner

#nature #western-philosophy #nature

Never judge or discourage anyone who makes continued progress,no matter how show nature does not hurry,yet everything is accomplished ↗

— anonumous

#nature

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be taken...a matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice. ↗

— Nahoko Uehashi

#obliviousness #survival #nature

Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not. ↗

— Nahiyan bin Asadullah

#nature

you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm and take a good long look at the farmer's bookshelf. Because what you're feeding your emotions and thoughts is what this is really all about. the way I produce a chicken is an extension of my worldview. You can learn more about that by seeing what is sitting on my bookshelf than having me fill out a whole bunch of forms." Joel Salatin ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature

I wondered if this wasn't a case of making the ideal an enemy of the good, but Salatin was convinced that industrial organic was finally a contradiction in terms. I decided I had to find out if he was right. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature

...the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Nature's heart beats strong amid the hills. ↗

— Richard Monckton Milnes

#hills #nature #nature