#nature

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#between #bottom #carries #drive #either

Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union. ↗

— John Hutton

#business #effects #european #european union #must

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#believe #god #man #many #nature

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#everywhere #i #i think #incomplete #nature

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#nature #neither #nor #punishments #rewards

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ↗

— Anais Nin

#blossom #bud #came #day #more

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#einstein #nature #philosophy #beauty

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#page- #change

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#communication #heartwarming #human-connections #human-nature #humanism

Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#page- #freedom