#nature

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us. ↗

— Sam Harris

#natural #nature

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture. ↗

— Richard Mabey

#cats #nature #nature

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment! ↗

— Ellis Peters

#nature #wonder #nature

And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance— they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins. ↗

— Kathleen Raine

#trees #nature

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. ↗

— George Orwell

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The Moon rules our emotional nature, how we react in situations, and what is needed in our lives to make us feel emotionally safe and secure. ↗

— Rosemary Breen

#horoscope #horoscope-compatibility #nature

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#common-sense #curiosity #deadly-sins #faults #gold

And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any "natural explanation" offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on. ↗

— Anne Rice

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