#nature

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#devotion #efforts #increase #knowledge #large

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#being #box #called #compliment #conscious

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#dance music #hip #hip hop #hop #i

It is my nature to thin where others read. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#others #read #thin #where

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#became #ennobled #god #him #human

Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#beauty

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#deceives #nature #never #ourselves #us

After that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Every morning I wakened with a fresh consciousness that winter was over. There were none of the signs of spring for which I used to watch in Virginia, no budding woods or blooming gardens. There was only—spring itself; the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere: in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm, high wind—rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive and playful like a big puppy that pawed you and then lay down to be petted. If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring. ↗

— Willa Cather

#nature #nature-s-beauty #prairie #similies #spring

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#beings #enterprise #every #fellow #fellow human beings

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#days #deeply #environmental #message #most