#nature

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#comedies #easiest #easiest thing #god #hanging

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#any #doubt #enlightenment #explanation #freud

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ↗

— Albert Camus

#autumn #every #flower #leaf #second

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. ↗

— Albert Camus

#definition #instinct #law #nature #obey

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. ↗

— John Berger

#around #cite #cruelty #evil #human

Art will never be able to exist without nature. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

#art #exist #nature #never #will

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#beauty-in-nature #science #wonder #beauty

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#desires #hath #limits #nature #none

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#human #human society #into #itself #nature

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. ↗

— Mo Yan

#dark #dark side #express #expression #human