#nature

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. ↗

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convinced #discovery #every #every time #feel

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. ↗

— Richard Russo

#anybody #aspect #darker #easier #i

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game. ↗

— Mark Russell

#baseball #baseball game #because #beloved #booed

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #anything #behave #cost #cruelly

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it. ↗

— Bob Saget

#around #been #comedy #how #i

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. ↗

— George Sand

#destroy #enthusiasm #i #instantly #nature

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#boulder #bush #deep #dig #gentle

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#being #former #given #hand #latter

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. ↗