#ture

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#nature

The sky is an enormous man. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#nature #paganism #sky #nature

Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world belongs to them, they parley at the river with the dogs, their higher, sharper voices full of authority and rebuke. They are an old council of clowns, and they are listened to. ↗

— N. Scott Momaday

#dogs #nature #night #nature

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#hidden #nature #often #overcome #seldom

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#human-nature #investment #pride #nature

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#religion #nature

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world. ↗

— Robin Hobb

#nature #nature

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#evolution #existence #natural-selection #nature

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run... ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#nature

When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjöld

#nature #pantheism #nature