#natur

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.' ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#about #amiable #arrangement #because #biology

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so. ↗

— Athanasius

#anyone #approximation #city #clear #country

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch. ↗

— Tom Arnold

#else #fails #feel #move #nature

I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men. ↗

— Neal Cassady

#became #few #i #men #score

Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embittered if they fall short- to try to do good with people rather than to them- this is my religion on its human side. And if God exists, I think that he must be in the warm sun, in the kindly actions of the people we know and read of, in the beautiful things of art and nature, and in the closeness of friendships. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

#human-nature #relationships #spirituality #wisdom #art

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#always #believe #end #i #i believe

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights. ↗

— William H. Seward

#natural #natural rights #rights #states #therefore

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense. ↗

— John Sexton

#come #forest #forms #i #looking

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography. ↗

— John Sexton

#before #environment #i #involved #life

So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera. ↗

— John Sexton

#back #became #being #camera #explore