#nature

What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it? ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#beings #changes #human #human beings #into

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' ↗

— Laura Riding

#am #conscious #go #human #human nature

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#bigger #bird #boston #championship #championship team

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#built #consequences #divine #his #i

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#artist #nature #never #ugly

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#eyes #forces #forms #give #her

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#art #contemplation #divines #herself #into

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#bending #blossoms #carry #confidant #cordial

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#deep #flowers #keep #light #roots

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#best #immortality #nature #our #perhaps