#nature

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#writing #nature

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#civilization #nature

When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes from inside, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive. That is yoga. ↗

— Petri Räisänen

#nature

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come. ↗

— Jack Gilbert

#nature #sorrow #nature

When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry. ↗

— Brian Richardson

#worry #nature

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties ↗

— John Muir

#wilderness #love

A fish cannot drown in water, A bird does not fall in air. In the fire of creation, God doesn't vanish: The fire brightens. Each creature God made must live in its own true nature; How could I resist my nature, That lives for oneness with God? ↗

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

#god #inner-nature #transcendence #wind #nature

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative ↗

— John Burroughs

#nature

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance... ↗

— Annie Dillard

#stillness #nature

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you. ↗

— Philip G. Zimbardo

#human-nature #psychology #nature