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But here Billy Chope arrived to demand what the 'ell Sam Cardew was doing with his gal. Now Sam was ever readier for a fight than Billy was; but the sum of Billy's half pints was large: wherefore the fight began. On the skirt of a hilarious ring Lizerunt, after some small outcry, triumphed aloud. Four days before, she had no bloke; and here she stood with two, and those two fighting for her! Here in the public gaze, on the Flats! For almost five minutes she was Helen of Troy. ↗

— Arthur Morrison

#lizerunt #naturalism #nature

The linages between the nodes that form the web of life- how delightful. ↗

— Gladys Chua

#interactions #nature #web-of-life #nature

Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten. ↗

— Barbara Johnson

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We continue to still cut down the tree's of this world, despite having nailed one 2000 years ago. ↗

— Moses Pereira

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Every natural action is graceful. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#leaders #monsters #nature

Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#love #nature #pablo-neruda #poetry #love

You [Mankind] have been given no particular function. You may give your life whatever form you choose, do whatever you wish … you have no limitations, and can act in accord with your own free will. You alone can choose the limits of your nature. ↗

— Pico della Mirandola

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It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. He wondered if she had the .45 on her leg beneath the gown. Clarice Starling smiled at him then, the cabochons caught the firelight and the monster was lost in self-congratulation at his own exquisite taste and cunning. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#hannibal-lecter #nature

It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair ↗

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#black #hair #race #women #nature