#natur

The obvious point of Conrad’s cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention technologies) are illegal. Flash: No one ever died from copyright circumvention. Yet the law bans circumvention technologies absolutely, despite the potential that they might do some good, but permits guns, despite the obvious and tragic harm they do. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#nature

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing. ↗

— Billy Boyd

#enjoying #land #like #lot #nature

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#habit #mind #moderation #nature #reason

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#away #birds #dinner #go #i

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#forms #her #him #holds #language

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't. ↗

— Chester Brown

#how #i #i think #important #interest

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#country #decent #decent people #destructive #govern

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. ↗

— James Buchan

#better #better off #century #couple #ever

If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles -- a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story -- the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort -- each and all are the orderly beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart. ↗

— John Muir

#earthquakes #nature #order #yosemite #beauty