#nature

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#art

We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children. (pg. 73, "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creation #future #nature #stewardship #art

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#nature #art

É ela [a natureza], igualmente, que leva o homem a matar seu semelhante, a devorá-lo, a sequestrá-lo, a torturá-lo; pois, tão logo saímos da ordem das necessidades e das precisões, para entrar na do luxo e dos prazeres, vemos que a natureza não pode aconselhar senão o crime. (...) É a filosofia (refiro-me à boa), é a religião que manda que alimentemos parentes pobres e enfermos. (...) O mal faz-se sem esforço, naturalmente, e por fatalidade; o bem é sempre o produto de uma arte. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#natureza #art

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature #rule #totalitarian #under

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#doing #fantasy #god #nature #obligated

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#looks #nature #private #road #sect

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#better #brute #celestial #civil #creatures

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#been #discovers #doubtless #his #nature

Communism is in conflict with human nature. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#conflict #human #human nature #nature