#nature

I don't know what's going on in the world," he said. "Everything seemed so reasonable and scientific until I discovered my son was a fraud with the ability to hide my own memories from me. And now you come along. The captain at the gate told me you were executed and buried yesterday." "He spoke to you? He didn't say a word to me," I said. "Don't change the subject, young man. I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature." "Nature's virtue is intact. I just know some different laws. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#change

When a girl's under 21, she's protected by law. When she's over 65, she's protected by nature. Anywhere in between she's fair game. ↗

— Stanley Shapiro

#between #fair #fair game #game #girl

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#death #drown #freeze #freezing #funny

Art is the signature of civilizations. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#civilizations #signature

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#develop #good #man #nature #originally

Walk Like A Pine Tree Day occurs on Stand Still Day. Orafoura and I observe both—and we observe whatever else we may be standing next to.
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #nature #observe #see

For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home ↗

— Tahir Shah

#nature #home

If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison. ↗

— Bruce Chatwin

#nature-of-man #nomad #pascal #walkabout #home

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you. ↗

— Frances Wright

#believe #examine #faith #grounds #i

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#below #bring #catch #color #corn