#nature

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#come #control #exclude #generations #human

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#declaration #founders #god #got #government

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ↗

— George Santayana

#changing #happier #hopelessly #interested #love

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. ↗

— George Santayana

#beyond #disposition #him #kindly #man

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#catastrophe #changing #described #heading #history

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#butterfly #caterpillar #going #nothing #tells

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#arisen #could #dramatists #english #essence

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#business #capture #certain #films #going

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. ↗

— David Hare

#nature #poetry

The earth has music for those who listen. ↗

— George Santayana

#music