#nature

...the question as to the nature of force will not have been answered; but our minds, no longer vexed, will cease to ask illegitimate questions. ↗

— Heinrich Hertz

#nature

Not to worry, Phillip,” Father O’Toole said. “I was just inquiring as to what authority they—” He stopped abruptly, jumping forward as the wall phone came unhinged behind him, dangling by a corner screw. “Huh,” Gil pondered. “Look at that.” “What happened?” Father O’Toole asked. “The phone fell,” Gil answered. “Well, naturally! I’m not blind, young man. I’m asking how the phone fell!” “I blame gravity,” Gil offered. (Excerpt from Whisper of Light) ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#whisper-of-light #nature

I popped out of a bamboo, fallen from the sky. Leave no leaf ripped, don't you ruin the nature. It makes me bitter, remembering inhuman past. ↗

— Toba Beta

#creation #in-the-beginning #sumatra #nature

They walked off on the earthy path, laughing not quite naturally, for they could hardly help being pleased by the momentary attention of descending passengers and by their own almost meritorious youth. ↗

— Shirley Hazzard

#nature

Dying is as natural as being born, and all of us have to face it someday. Some sooner than others. It's difficult to understand the meaning of it all. The question isn't, 'Why do we die?' The correct question is, 'Why do we live? ↗

— S.M. Reine

#nature

The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the atmosphere established in the written or spoken exhange, among many other instances, offer alternatives to the book itself that allow us to talk about ourselves without dwelling upon the work too closely. ↗

— Pierre Bayard

#nature

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#science #nature

The Puritans feared the pathless woods and imputed much evil into wild nature's instructive tendency to balk human progress. The Cherokee derived a religion from that fact. ↗

— Christopher Comuto

#nature #religion #nature

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it. ↗

— Ruth Hurmence Green

#naturalism #religion #nature

Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God. ↗

— Frithjof Schuon

#religion #nature