#nature

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ↗

— Anais Nin

#blossom #bud #came #day #more

Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#page- #freedom

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#intercourse #mind #nature #never #should

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#began #book #came #certainly #combine

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#asks #else #his #improvement #less

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#been #follow #forward-looking #generous #government

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

Comedy is second nature for me. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#me #nature #second

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