#ture

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources. ↗

— Leon Krier

#community #design #architecture

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#beauty #language #nature #art

Without literature, life is hell. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#love

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#nature

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun. ↗

— Larry Niven

#nature #science #nature

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#nature

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#nature

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally. ↗

— James Jones

#witty #nature

Natural law says that matter cannot be created or destroyed, but that was pre-spanx. ↗

— Lisa Scottoline

#nature