#nature

... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls. ↗

— Lev S. Vygotsky

#human-behavior #human-nature #parenting #nature

I thought that there could be no revolt against nature. I accepted the landscape without dreaming that, behind, there still prowled large skeletons without fur. With just one sign, I thought I was able to make them rise up outside their refuges... ↗

— Roger Vitrac

#nature #spooky #dreams

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#learned #nature #stylish #work

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. ↗

— Eric Berne

#birds #boy #concerned #hear #jay

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#eat #fishes #great #great ones #little

This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#nature

You can't tell me you're not cold in those shorts." "Freezing," she admitted, handing Alex her messenger bag as she got to her feet. "But dammit, I look cute and we both know that's what counts." "Naturally. ↗

— Jena Leigh

#cassie #revival #nature

What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant. ↗

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#constant #human #human-nature #nature #people

We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#christianity #culture #environment #industry #nature

Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#body-and-mind #body-image #body-language #body-mind #identity