#nature

All men are by nature born equally free and independent. ↗

#equally #free #independent #men #nature

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical. ↗

#constantly #music #nature #periodical #pop

Hope had finally learned to live in the present. Often, when she found herself in a space of tremendous comfort, usually out in nature, or when her children were safe all around her and on the verge of going to bed, she forced herself to take stock. Here you are, Hope, she told herself. What a beautiful moment. You may never again be here at this spot, enjoying the calm. This habit of hers, to acknowledge the immediate and elusive joy of the present, kept her sane. ↗

— David Bergen

#calm #children #comfort #nature #age

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#human #human condition #modern #nature #reality

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#constructive #destructive #human #human nature #nature

I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#i #i think #intriguing #know #lot

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. ↗

— Michelangelo

#cities #felt #i #i love #love

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature. ↗