#perfection

If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore defeats the joy. It's a good thing to learn more about nature in order to share this knowledge with children; it's even better if the adult and child learn about nature together. And it's a lot more fun. ↗

— Richard Louv

#nature #perfectionism #nature

But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their pollen. Trees can't move either, but birds and animals eat their fruit and carry their seeds far and wide. ↗

— Nahoko Uehashi

#nature #nature-of-things #perfection-in-nature #nature

Alles, was der Mensch tut, unvollkommen ist. Aber wer will sich schon seine Unvollkommenheit eingestehen? ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#imperfection #nature

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#perfection #utopia #boredom

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#communicate #concealed #critic #discover #dwell

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#classical #eight #glenn #make #musicians

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#i #man #much #need #needed

It is absurd to look for perfection. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#look #perfection

When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband. ↗

— Martha Quinn

#husband #hyper #imperfections #less #life

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#chance #clear #composition #equation #found