#nature

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things. ↗

— William Ames

#believed #called #everyone #god #heard

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor. ↗

— William Ames

#duty #good #joined #known #least

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#best #best way #character #color #explain

Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#life #nature #beauty

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you. ↗

— David Attenborough

#being #itself #nature #positive #unkind

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. ↗

— Richard Bach

#butterfly #calls #caterpillar #end #end of the world

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#existing #form #government #highest #highest form

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#kind #law #man #more #nature

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#commanded #must #obeyed

The skull is nature's sculpture. ↗

— David Bailey

#sculpture #skull