#nature

The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#fire #juniper #nature #nature-writing #equality

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#believe #cannot #cooperation #gone #human

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#eyes #hearts #our #see #understandings

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature. ↗

— Eliza Haywood

#draw #great #heavenly #more #much

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#accomplish #gentle #good-natured #kind #look

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#along #be happy #be true #carry #happy

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cannot #contempt #else #heart #himself

I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#i think #myself #nature #optimist #think

So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#bipolar #chaotic #get #i #just

People must help one another; it is nature's law. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#help #law #must #nature #people