#natur

Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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(I was never surprised that they did not have a phoenix on display. There is only one phoenix at a time, of course, and while the Natural History Museum was filled with dead things, the phoenix is always alive.) ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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A gate to nature is a gate to heaven! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature. ↗

— Toba Beta

#technology #nature

...no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half. ↗

— Jane Austen

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History is a record of human nature in action. ↗

— James Carlos Blake

#human-nature #nature

Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based on God's prior and original gift of things that are. People think that they can make arbitrary use of the earth, subjecting it without restraint to their wills, as though the earth did not have its own requisites and a prior God-given purpose, which human beings can indeed develop but must not betray. ↗

— John Paul II

#culture #earth #ecology #god #nature

...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely... ↗

— John Geddes

#garden #nature #writers #writing-advice #love