#nature

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#earthquake #fire #gentle #light #need

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#art #attempt #beyond #built #city

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#denying #easy #i #i am #legislation

It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty. ↗

— Serge Haroche

#art #beauty #bring #curious #fund

I think I have a dualistic nature. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#i think #nature #think

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#alike #chiefly #endures #however #intensity

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. ↗

— Jack Herer

#ensure #gases #greenhouse #greenhouse gases #growing

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill. ↗

— Thomas Heywood

#fill #god #nature #stage #theatre

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#animal #child #does #hand #harsh

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer. ↗