#nature

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#always #between #breeze #comes #cracking

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#human nature #love #love is #master #nature

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#essence #indispensable #luminous #me #nature

A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later year…the alienation from the sources of our strength. ↗

— Rachel Carson

#wonder #beauty

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#cheerful #consistently #express #future #human

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#air #body #cheering #communication #cut

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#easily #frets #gravitation #his #into

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems. ↗

— Marc Cherry

#episodic #gems #might #nature #new

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#clothed #flesh #human #human nature #inherited

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#angels #christ #him #human #human nature