#nature

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Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer


John Keats


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Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.


Kristin Cashore


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Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.


William Wilberforce


#sin #nature

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.


Michael Pollan


#food

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be conscious, in the midst of the city, of their surrounding presence. For this is the real nature of California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveller of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth. "You are perfectly welcome," it tells him, "during your short visit. Everything is at your disposal. Only, I must warn you, if things go wrong, don't blame me. I accept no responsibility. I am not part of your neurosis. Don't cry to me for safety. There is no home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it, and you will be happy.


Christopher Isherwood


#desert #empowerment #environment #freedom #happiness

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.


Cormac McCarthy


#freedom #frontier #individualism #justice #liberalism

Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of the process of making inspiration real. I believe in doing what works as circumstances change: quirky or unusual solutions are often good ones. Nature bends and so should we as appropriate. Nature is always right outside our door as a reference and touch point. We should use it far more than we do.


Maggie Macnab


#art #creativity #design #logos #nature

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.


Robert M. Pirsig


#knowledge #mistake #nature #science #art

Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.


Alan Furst


#nature #travel #home

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.


Albert Einstein


#human-nature #humor #infinity #philosophy #science