#nature

Summer coming like a car from down the highway. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#nature

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#obsession #order #nature

There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#love #lucidity #nature #love

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer ↗

— John Keats

#nature #scenery #nature

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

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Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#sin #nature

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food

The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden. ↗

— David Mitchell

#nature #nature