#nature

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees; and there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living, whose reason for being might be geographical but whose growth is based on industry, jobs. Detroit has its natural attractions: lakes all over the place, an abundance of trees and four distinct seasons for those who like variety in their weather, everything but hurricanes and earth-quakes. But it’s never been the kind of city people visit and fall in love with because of its charm or think, gee, wouldn’t this be a nice place to live. ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#cities #detroit #industry #jobs #michigan

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#about #blooming #dreaming #enjoying #garden

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#art #boundaries #common #common language #language

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#cry #did #her #independent #less

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#committing #constantly #crimes #does #nature

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#history #human #human nature #keeps #nature

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#better #defective #does #duty #follow

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. ↗

— Robert Bork

#ask #constitution #endorsed #ideas #judges

Nature is not human hearted. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#human #nature

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#beauty-in-nature #science #wonder #beauty