#nature

WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! REWARD ↗

— Shannon Hale

#hair #rapunzel #wanted #nature

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#human-nature #motivation #time #time-management #writing

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#henry-david-thoreau #nature

Pike spawn in February, March, and April because they cannot wait until May. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#humor #natural-history #nature

The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#natural-resources #nature #nature

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#happiness #nature #nature

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#gratefulness #gratitude #musings #nature #seasons

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#emily #nature

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#writing #nature

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones. ↗

— Bruce Chatwin

#patagonia #life