#nature

There is a great deal of human nature in man. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#great #great deal #human #human nature #man

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#brutally #designed #fits #harmony #institution

Tamsen lay listening to the crashing of the waves on the beach, the symphony of the ocean competing with the orchestral maneuvers of the first birds singing in the dawn. ↗

— Toni Kenyon

#nature-s-beauty #romance #beauty

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#circle #compassion #creatures #embrace #free

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#conquered #dears #human #human nature #nature

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#calamity #characteristics #courage #faces #grow

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world. ↗

— William Gass

#builds #combining #converse #does #elementary

Question for your life: If you could change War’s name, do you think you’d change its nature? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#name #nature #war #change

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love. ↗

— Alex Grey

#ask #bare #beings #call #celebrating

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#begin #birth #body #build #connected