#nature

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#cold #crack #games #i #jokes

Finally, a twenty-two old girl was dazzled by the world's brightness and kept her eyes shut for two weeks. When at the end of that time she opened her eyes again, she did not recognize any objects, but, "the more she now directed her gaze upon everything about her, the more it could be seen as an expression of gratification and astonishment overspread her features; she repeatedly exclaimed, 'Oh God! How beautiful! ↗

— Ann Dillard

#pilgrim-at-tinker-creek #beauty

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#assign #beyond #continuing #entities #extensions

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#connection #conservatives #grasp #link #nature

Nature is a petrified magic city. ↗

— Novalis

#magic #nature #petrified

Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks. ↗

— John Burnham Schwartz

#sorrow #beauty

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#come #delicate #drowned #easily #everyday

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#bitter #central #character #comic #comic relief

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#composition #consider #formed #i #kinds

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. ↗

— William Law

#attracts #christ #desire #divine #divine nature