#nature

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through Life with our eyes shut. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#life

The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world. ↗

— Anne Rice

#nature #origin #truth #life

Human nature is the same in all professions. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#life

When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind." (Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886) ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#detail #nature #show-don-t-tell #writing #life

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#any #become #man #nature #necessary

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#nature

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit #walls #nature

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#nature

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy ↗

— Isaac Newton

#philosophy #simplicity #wisdom #nature

...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on. ↗

— Billie Letts

#human-nature #nature