#nature

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#gender #homosexuality #lesbianism #morality #nature

No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#destruction-of-nature #environmentalism #human-experience #human-nature #experience

He that plants trees loves others besides himself. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#nature #love

...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#life

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#nature #travel-writing #humor

We love reproducing. It’s one of our favorite things. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#dystopia #human-nature #humor #reproduction #shadowhunters

The crickets sounded like maybe in the trees. They were pretty loud to be so unsure of themselves.
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— Jarod Kintz

#loud #maybe #nature #noise #self-esteem

I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of God. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nature

...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#cocaine-and-ambition #john-watson #sherlock-holmes #nature

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#love #nature #vegan-vegetarian #life