#nature

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ↗

— Albert Camus

#autumn #every #flower #leaf #second

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. ↗

— Albert Camus

#definition #instinct #law #nature #obey

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. ↗

— Truman Capote

#life #love #love is #nature

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#cheerful #consistently #express #future #human

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#air #body #cheering #communication #cut

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#easily #frets #gravitation #his #into

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems. ↗

— Marc Cherry

#episodic #gems #might #nature #new

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#clothed #flesh #human #human nature #inherited

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#angels #christ #him #human #human nature

He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#england #nature #beauty