#nature

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#before #beginning #firmly #ground #in the beginning

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical. ↗

— John Mayer

#constantly #music #nature #periodical #pop

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#crew #earth #passengers #spaceship #spaceship earth

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#constructive #destructive #human #human nature #nature

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. ↗

— Mo Udall

#fight #more #nature #only #options

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't? ↗

— Paul Merton

#being #comedy #fascinated #funny #i

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#am #around #blue #charged #cooler

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#i #i do #introspective #nature #person

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#before #had #human #human animal #less