#nature

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#evil #life #nature #beauty

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#nature #save #shrines #temples #those

It's just a part of our nature to hope. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#just #nature #our #part

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#nature #reinvent #smarter #than #wheels

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. ↗

— Epictetus

#foolish #nature #pleasures #resist #slave