#nature

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humour #nature

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener. ↗

— Paula Fox

#children #reading #nature

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. ↗

— John Muir

#books #nature #nature

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky. ↗

— Eva Ibbotson

#sadness #nature

‎Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer. ↗

— John Flanagan

#questions #rangers #will #nature

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. ↗

— Willa Cather

#nature

Trees're always a relief, after people. ↗

— David Mitchell

#forest #humanity #nature #trees #nature

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#philosophy #truth #nature

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. ↗

— Jo Walton

#nature #sunrise #sunset #nature

Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#louisiana #south #nature