#nature

Invite Tranquility The sea,-- Something to look at When we are angry. ↗

— Reiko Chiba

#sea #tranquility #nature

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#nature #reality #nature

People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#nature

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free ↗

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#healing #health #mindfulness #nature

But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct. ↗

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

#secularization #nature

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#ravens #nature

When we burn fossil fuel for energy we are, in qualitative terms, doing nothing more wrong than burning wood. Our wrongdoing, if that is an appropriate term, is taking energy from Gaia hundreds of times faster than it is naturally made available. We are sinning in a quantitative not a qualitative way. ↗

— James Lovelock

#nature

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#self-control #nature

A bird sings in the morning, an owl hoots at night...it's still a bloody bird. ↗

— Oliver Reed

#nature

Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of human hands and especially out of the human heart and put it through a machine, we have made progress. Indeed, we flatter ourselves that we can make machines that think like human beings, while not always pausing to reflect that in the process we have also succeeded in making millions of human beings who can feel and think like machines. It is a sorry reflection. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#philosophy #society #nature