#nature

The merciless Macdonald (Worthy to be a rebel, — for, to that, The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him) from the Western Isles Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; And Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Showed like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak: For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name) Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion, Carv'd out his passage. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#nature

Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or else. Much notice she takes, being in league with God. They're a right pair, more carnage than the rest of us put together. ↗

— Jonathan Gash

#farmers #god #lovejoy #mother-nature #nature

Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing something to me. ↗

— Sara Levine

#nature

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete ↗

— Steven Johnson

#innovation #nature

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#hobbies #innovation #self-improvement #nature

The world moves fast, and so do the bees. Can we find the stillness to see them? ↗

— Hattie Ellis

#nature

Trouble is we end up being worse at saying things well. It's got to be an inborn fault. Naturally, everyone's got faults. My biggest fault is that the faults i was born with grow bigger each year. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#truth #wisdom #nature

There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing else, or doing nothing better, which was so graceful, so natural & agreeable ↗

— Charles Dickens

#nature

That's it on the maps; nature doesn't acknowledge frontiers. Neither can ecology... Where to begin to understand what we've only got a computerspeak label for, ecosystem? Where to decide it begins. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#ecology #ecosystem #nature

Nate shook his head with a crooked grin. "You haven't gone Back to the Future, McFly. ↗

— Elizabeth Sharp

#humour #nature