#nature

Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#nature #beauty

Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ. ↗

— George Whitefield

#although #amazing #believers #blood #brought

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents. ↗

— George Whitefield

#first #god #him #nature #our

Culture means control over nature. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#culture #means #nature #over

Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fantasy #nature #science-fiction #the-dispossessed #death

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people. ↗

— Paul Getty

#immensely #impressed #industrious #japan #japanese

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. ↗

— Paul Getty

#emotional responses #emotions #like #men #men and women

I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case. ↗

— Debbie Gibson

#bit #bubble #case #feel #his way

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. ↗

— Andre Gide

#gifted #most #natures #perhaps #trembling

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. ↗

— L. Wolfe Gilbert

#find #itself #life #nature #secrets