#nature

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#love

The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people are capable of reason, and that a community of people who choose to perfect this faculty and to exercise it openly and fairly can collectively reason their way to sounder conclusions in the long run. As Lincoln observed, you can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#reason #nature

Answers to leading questions under torture naturally tell us nothing about the beliefs of the accused; but they are good evidence for the beliefs of the accusers. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#nature

Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony. ↗

— Markham Shaw Pyle

#american-history #history #nature

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps. ↗

— Stephen King

#nature

By bringing together people who share interests, no matter their location or time zone, social media has the potential to transform the workplace into an environment where learning is as natural as it is powerful. ↗

— Marcia Conner

#learning #organizational-culture #social-media #workplace-wisdom #nature

A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind. ↗

— A.L. Kennedy

#nature #outdoors #peace #sun #war

Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark. ↗

— Lucy Christopher

#poetic-fiction #nature

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#inequality #politics #nature

im jeff goldblum in jurassic park for u i point out human beings' exploitation of the natural world thats my main function also im arrogant and i like u ↗

— Steve Roggenbuck

#nature