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

— Robert E. Howard

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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

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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

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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

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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

The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

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Rights and duties, sounded more entertaining than duties and rights. ↗

— Toba Beta

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I stopped in front of a florist's window. Behind me, the screeching and throbbing boulevard vanished. Gone, too, were the voices of newspaper vendors selling their daily poisoned flowers. Facing me, behind the glass curtain, a fairyland. Shining, plump carnations, with the pink voluptuousness of women about to reach maturity, poised for the first step of a sprightly dance; shamelessly lascivious gladioli; virginal branches of white lilac; roses lost in pure meditation, undecided between the metaphysical white and the unreal yellow of a sky after the rain. ↗

— Emil Dorian

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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift. ↗

— Marlene Van Niekerk

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