#nature

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#man #nature #philosophy #life

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature. ↗

— Pope Shenouda III

#anything #between #else #expression #female

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#nature #never #pity #those #who

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#common #defined #else #essential #fire

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film. ↗

— Alan Rudolph

#another #boring #discussion #film #language

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#chooses #individuals #nature #transgender #who

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity. ↗

— Warren De la Rue

#decline #goes #laws #must #nature

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. ↗

— John Ruskin

#done #man #nature #part #pleasing

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convinced #discovery #every #every time #feel

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. ↗

— Richard Russo

#anybody #aspect #darker #easier #i