#nature

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties. ↗

— Aberjhani

#human-nature #humanity #identity #mirrors #personal-identity

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#law #little #much #nature #power

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#experience #family #homes #kept #line

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#being #blocking #character #cliche #complicated

Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. ↗

— Erica Goros

#beauty #god #gratitude #inspiration #love

Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored. ↗

— David Suzuki

#calculations #difficult #dollar #economic #ignored

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#cats #everything #function #intended #nature

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#christians #conspicuous #desire #discriminate #distinctions

There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#evolution #feeling #few #few men #inborn

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#after #birds #delight #feel #free