#nature

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dependency #fire #fling #flood #forces

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#constantly #epochs #fate #geography #godless

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ↗

— Satchel Paige

#pray #rains #shines #sun #sun shines

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#entire #importance #least #movement #nature

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#being #everything #good #his #lost

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#consists #death #motion #nature #our

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#experience #instinct #men #nature #things

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#am #destroys #first #habit #i

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#natural #nature #our #principles

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#man #most #nature #reed #thing