#nature

When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. ↗

— Masanobu Fukuoka

#farming #zen #nature

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#nature

Mama says it’s just her nature. Some people are flowers, and some are thorns. ↗

— Jennifer Archer

#nature

The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I’ve let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me. ↗

— Richard Nelson

#mountains #nature #experience

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#nature #sunshine #nature

Days decrease, And autumn grows, autumn in everything. ↗

— Robert Browning

#fall #nature #nature

You can't tell me you're not cold in those shorts." "Freezing," she admitted, handing Alex her messenger bag as she got to her feet. "But dammit, I look cute and we both know that's what counts." "Naturally. ↗

— Jena Leigh

#cassie #revival #nature

What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant. ↗

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#constant #human #human-nature #nature #people

Phoebe asked me, "Tell me, what do you think of the afterlife?" I was a bit nonplussed. I had no idea what she thought, but I knew that the question must be of greater interest to someone of her age than to me. But our conversation had been completely honest, and before I could speak, honesty and tact had joined hands in my answer. "I have no faith at all," I said, "but sometimes I have hope." I rather think," she replied, "that total annihilation is the most comfortable position." I was shaken. The horse clopped on. The children laughed behind us. When I die," she said, "I don't expect to see any of my loved ones again. I'll just become a part of all this." She waved her hand at the surrounding countryside. "That's all right with me. ↗

— Sena Jeter Naslund

#life #mortality #nature #age

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed. ↗

— P.D. James

#grudge #human-nature #forgiveness