#nature

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. ↗

— George H. Mead

#appreciation #art #attitude #become #enjoyed

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. ↗

— Roger Tory Peterson

#birds #envy #fly #free #kind

Most anti-vaccine books claim that all shots are bad, the diseases aren't really anything to fear, and as long as you live a natural and healthy lifestyle, you don't have to worry. I think this is a very irresponsible approach to the vaccine issue. Vaccines are beneficial in ridding our population of both serious and nonserious diseases. ↗

— Robert W. Sears

#health #vaccines #nature

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#service #nature

The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world, and, especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind. ↗

— Arika Okrent

#linguistics #nature #life

I look through the cage...an absolute beauty of yours... ↗

— Ankur Kumar Shah

#appreciation #beauty #cage #caged-bird #caged-view

...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows... ↗

— John Geddes

#boughs #food #nature #poetry #sparrows

Nature is never finished. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#nature #never

There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed. ↗

— Vasily Grossman

#human-nature #life #life

Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life. ↗

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#nature #life