#nature

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. ↗

— Kathrine Switzer

#running #faith

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds. ↗

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

#nature #science #spirit #nature

I wondered if this wasn't a case of making the ideal an enemy of the good, but Salatin was convinced that industrial organic was finally a contradiction in terms. I decided I had to find out if he was right. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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...the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Nature's heart beats strong amid the hills. ↗

— Richard Monckton Milnes

#hills #nature #nature

Human hypocrisy: When one judges humanity as a whole, people have the habit of disagreeing, saying that everyone is different - unique. Yet people turn around and say that at the end of the day, everyone is the same. Ladies and gentlemen, the joyful paradoxical nature of humanity. If you really want to dismiss the paradox, show me that your an imaginary number, rather than a real number. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#hypocrisy #paradox #nature

Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps no coincidence that nature in the Cinderella stories facilitates transformation, for nature itself is a changeable thing, from season to season, from a sunny day to rain, from an egg to a flying bird in a matter of weeks. (Source: "The Nature of Cinderella".) ↗

— Marie Rutkoski

#fairy-tales #stories #telling-tales #writing #nature

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators... The land is one organism. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #predators #love

This constant basso on the horizon is it the waterfall or the cannon ("Poem") ↗

— Paul Dermée

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I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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