#nature

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#nurture #music

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed. ↗

— Tamar Myers

#pessimism #nature

It was truly an abomination of nature that one always found the most comfortable spot in the bed five minutes before one had to leave it. ↗

— Mia Ryan

#observation #universal-truths #nature

WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! REWARD ↗

— Shannon Hale

#hair #rapunzel #wanted #nature

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#human-nature #motivation #time #time-management #writing

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#henry-david-thoreau #nature

Pike spawn in February, March, and April because they cannot wait until May. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#humor #natural-history #nature

The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#natural-resources #nature #nature

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#happiness #nature #nature

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#gratefulness #gratitude #musings #nature #seasons