#nature

The extreme inequality of our ways of life, the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil among others, the ease of stimulating and gratifying our appetites and our senses, the over-elaborate foods of the rich, which inflame and overwhelm them with indigestion, the bad food of the poor, which they often go withotu altogether, so hat they over-eat greedily when they have the opportunity; those late nights, excesses of all kinds, immoderate transports of every passion, fatigue, exhaustion of mind, the innumerable sorrows and anxieties that people in all classes suffer, and by which the human soul is constantly tormented: these are the fatal proofs that most of our ills are of our own making, and that we might have avoided nearly all of them if only we had adhered to the simple, unchanging and solitary way of life that nature ordained for us. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#man #nature #food

I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#paranormal #urban-fantasy-series #werewolf #nature

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#nature

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world. ↗

— Rachel Carson

#nature

A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#sisters #nature

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses. ↗

— Richard Louv

#nature #parenting #nature

But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#rationalizations #unsourced #nature

I could sit and watch nature documentaries with Jenks and the kids the rest of the night if I wanted. And trust me, watching a dozen pixies scream as a crocodile chomped on a zebra was something not to be missed. They invariably cheered for the crocodile, not the zebra. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#nature

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again. ↗

— John Masefield

#travel #nature

Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system. ↗

— Sam Keen

#depression #wisdom #nature