#nature

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#extract #far #harder #human #human mind

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#bring #free #into #joyous #nature

I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings. ↗

— Albert Hofmann

#nature #seeing #beauty

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#beauty #language #nature #art

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#love

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#nature

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun. ↗

— Larry Niven

#nature #science #nature

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is. ↗