#nature

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#human-nature #opinion #beauty

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ↗

— Woody Allen

#bark #because #figure #get #god

I am two with nature. ↗

— Woody Allen

#am #i #i am #two

Very soon nations will understand that in reality Water is the most expensive natural resource for their survivals. Not Middle East oil neither African gold. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#middle-east #survival #water #nature

We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature, that's fine. If it doesn't, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot, he invented the wheel, which he used to transport himself and his burdens. The fact that the wheel doesn't have the slightest resemblance to the human foot is hardly a criticism of it. ↗

— Françoise Gilot

#invention #picasso #nature

I have been thinking ... that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies… ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#social-constraints #nature

The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth -- but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge... ↗

— Radclyffe Hall

#gay-teen #lesbian #lgbt #lgbtq #queer

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#comes #defect #defective #individual #likeness

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#created #general #however #itself #man

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. ↗

— John James Audubon

#becoming #desirous #fervently #grew #i