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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.


Wendell Berry


#nature #nature

‎Does anyone truly understand females? ...Their behavior is opposite of everything in the natural order and flies in the face of logic.


Mary Lydon Simonsen


#females #human #lydon #mary #mr-darcy

Summer coming like a car from down the highway.


Sherman Alexie


#nature

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.


Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez


#obsession #order #nature

There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.


Percy Bysshe Shelley


#love #lucidity #nature #love

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.


Robert Louis Stevenson


#nature

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer


John Keats


#nature #scenery #nature

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.


Kristin Cashore


#nature

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.


William Wilberforce


#sin #nature

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.


Michael Pollan


#food