#nature

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#choose #guide #i #leading #me

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. ↗

— James Buchan

#better #better off #century #couple #ever

If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles -- a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story -- the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort -- each and all are the orderly beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart. ↗

— John Muir

#earthquakes #nature #order #yosemite #beauty

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#birds #environment #find #god #i

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#becomes #bend #better #career #congress

I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail. ↗

— Jeremy Bulloch

#animated #character #characters #future #go

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. ↗

— Robert Burton

#life #love #morning #nature #night

What in heaven's name was the real essence of this beauty? Was it the precision of nature with its physical laws, or was it nature's mercilessness, ceaselessly resisting man's understanding? ↗

— Kōbō Abe

#beauty

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#compassion #demand #food #hunger #natural

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. ↗

— John Cage

#her #highest #manner #nature #operation