#nature

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#butterfly #counts #enough #moments #months

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#earth #effort #endless #heaven #listening

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#always #essentially #everything #god #grace

You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#connect #day #experience #get #hour

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#desire #elsewhere #get #go #i

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#nature #never #pity #those #who

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#artists #balance of power #call #challenge #describe

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#deep #lie #man #nature #original

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#consciousness #god #hid #human #human nature

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#excited #feelings #may #mind #nature