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Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature. ↗

— Max Brooks

#scepticism #weakness #zombie #nature

What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#flowers #goodness #hope #nature #providence

I can bench press steam, but not fog. I just have to wait until the fog lifts itself.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bench-press #fog #natural #nature #passion

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#destruction #flawed #human-character #human-nature #nature

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. ↗

— Jules Verne

#brave #cannot #human #laws #may

I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#nature

What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be. ↗

— David Mitchell

#violence #war #nature

You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry. ↗

— Janice Galloway

#tears #weeping #nature

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#knowledge #nature #power #understanding #wisdom

Oh, I don't know. I prefer to think that when they're at home, the Silent Brothers are much like us. Playing practical jokes in the Silent City, making toasted cheese-" "I hope they play charades," said Tessa Dryly. "It would seem to take advantage of their natural talents. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#charades #jem #silent-brothers #tessa #nature