#nature

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. ↗

— George Santayana

#nature

Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#nature

I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air. or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. ↗

— Willa Cather

#nature

There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples int he breeze.... Even a wild dog's matted fur shows a lacy pattern if you look at it closely enough. ↗

— Brunonia Barry

#nature

Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are. ↗

— Ina May Gaskin

#maternity-care #nature #technology #nature

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job. ↗

— Seth Godin

#linchpin #nature

Seriously, I’m totally weirded out by the girly nature of this conversation. And yet, it’s kinda like you’re growing up. Do you think Judy Blume made a book about adolescent vampires? Are You There God, It’s Me, Merit?” Mallory snorted, obviously pleased with herself. ↗

— Chloe Neill

#friday-night-bites #vampire #nature

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#hair #nature

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. ↗

— William Golding

#optimist #pessimist #nature

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#opinion #time #nature