#nature

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#ethics #industry #meat #nature

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#depression #grief #sadness #tear #nature

In wine, there's truth. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#wine #nature

...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#nature #nature

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do. ↗

— Rachel Naomi Remen

#connection #kindness #nature

You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt ↗

— Seanan McGuire

#october-daye #tybalt #nature

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#nature

I'm proud to be a freak of nature. ↗

— Robin Brande

#nature #nature

He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#nature #reconnection #nature

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#nature