#ture

Someone walking toward you is such a simple, happy-to-be-alive thing. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#the-nature-of-jade #nature

A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place. ↗

— Colette

#nature

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and destruction. ↗

— Jonathan Haidt

#evolution #religion #religion

As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of winestains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running. ↗

— Willa Cather

#nature #prairie #similies #nature

By noon, in a gray February world, we had come down through snow flurries to land at Albany, and had taken off again. When the snow ended the sky was a luminous gray. I looked down at the winter calligraphy of upstate New York, white fields marked off by the black woodlots, an etching without color, superbly restful in contrast to the smoky, guttering, grinding stink of the airplane clattering across the sky like an old commuter bus. ↗

— John D. MacDonald

#observational #nature

For isn't the artist by nature a revolutionary? ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#nature

Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image ↗

— Dean Koontz

#human-nature #nature

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities. ↗

— Adam Smith

#taxes #wealth #nature

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#nature

Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#nature