#nature

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose. ↗

— David Suzuki

#better ways #billion #control #cycles #demand

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ↗

— Tacitus

#implanted #man #nature #oppression #resist

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt. ↗

— Tacitus

#human #human nature #hurt #man #nature

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#desire #down #human #human nature #lay

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#butterfly #counts #enough #moments #months

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#earth #effort #endless #heaven #listening

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame. ↗

— Julie Taymor

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For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#beauty #dawn #disturbed #finest #mind

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#destruction #less #nature #than

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#beautiful #blue #children #cliff #cup