#nature

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#awkward #catching #father #father time #middle

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#also #book #books #clumsy #creature

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#extract #far #harder #human #human mind

The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range. ↗

— Mark Boal

#fact #films #high #nature #pitched

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#better #deep #everything #into #look

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#content #denying #endowed #him #nature

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#because #beyond #domain #exact #factors

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#ago #disappeared #had #hands #happened

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#call #day #every #every day #god

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera. ↗

— Janos Bolyai

#blindly #conformity #formed #model #must