Nature Of Things Quotes

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Robin Hobb
“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.”
Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

Huang Po
“Consider the sunlight. You may see it is near, yet if you follow it from world to world you will never catch it in your hands. Then you may describe it as far away and, lo, you will see it just before your eyes. Follow it and, behold, it escapes you; run from it and it follows you close. You can neither possess it nor have done with it. From this example you can understand how it is with the true Nature of all things and, henceforth, there will be no need to grieve or to worry about such things.”
Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then is he caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All my Best Friends have 4 Legs.”
Tim Poirier

Sanchita Pandey
“Even nature has hidden lessons for mankind underneath its silent saga. The trees teach us to give without discrimination, the seasons proclaim that time keeps changing for the better and the vastness of the sky bears the amount of love we should hold in our hearts for everyone we come across throughout the day.”
Sanchita Pandey, Voyage to Happiness!

H.S. Crow
“The sands bury everyone, with or without our help.”
H.S. Crow

Bangambiki Habyarimana
“Nature tells the truth as it is; it has no euphemism”
Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom

Erica Bauermeister
“Every perfume is made of top, middle, and base notes. Top notes are light, middle notes last longer, base notes last longest. A good perfume has all three, but they have to be in the proper proportions."
The sentences washed over me in a wave of technicalities, but I could feel what she was talking about. It had happened with every scent-paper I'd smelled, the fragrance shifting, telling a story that deepened even as it disappeared. Even nature was that way, if you thought about it- the bright green of the trees giving way to the dark and complicated dirt beneath, the ocean holding the scent of death under all that life.”
Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

Delia Owens
“Her pockets yielded only ordinary feathers, shells, and seedpods, so she hurried back to the shack and stood in front of her feather-wall, window-shopping. The most graceful were the tail feathers from a tundra swan.”
Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

Bangambiki Habyarimana
“Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.”
Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Regina M.  Powers
“Our truest nature to fully connect, heal, and grow is to be mirrored by something that reflects our full essence. I believe the natural world is that ideal mirror.”
Regina M Powers, What Color is Your Medicine?

“the more diverse is more resilient and capable to survive.”
kurbhatt

“Those who were known as sultans and emperors are gone to dust. Their palaces are now known as ruins. This is ultimate power and commands of nature.”
Aditya Ajmera

“Till the time Mother Nature takes away what she had bestowed upon us for free - this wonderful gift, of life. Value it, while you have it.”
Fakeer Ishavardas

Godspower Oparaugo
“You need to tolerate all manner of characters for your own good because, you cannot force people to change and even if you have to, you cannot change everyone.”
Godspower Oparaugo, Wake Up: 100 Powerful Truths to Inspire and Motivate You for Success

“Nature is constantly remaking you, yet you hold onto old energy through your emotions. Your mind, your thoughts, aren't physical and nature can't heal or recycle them. Only you can do that ... when you're willing to let go of them.”
Constance O'Day-Flannery, Colliding Forces

“She is not perfect, so don’t resent her, but she is prolific; she produces in profusion. - On Nature”
Lamine Pearlheart, The Sunrise's Commandment

Cynan Jones
“As part of a move to make a continent look better, money was given to the small town to improve itself, and they built a holding pool for the...fishing boats that would still work in the winter when it was too rough...The holding pool filled with ducks and they shat everywhere. There were hundreds of ducks....
Given the way they have to have sex, it's remarkable that there are *any* ducks. ... The male more or less drowns the female, who has to focus hard on staying afloat, and they both have to deal with wings and beaks and water and feathers, and it looks nasty, and they still have sex. So there were a great many ducks. And they all shat everywhere.”
Cynan Jones, The Long Dry

“You will never appreciate nature more than when a loved one dies. It is the music they sing that we can hear.”
Angie Corbett-Kuiper

Bangambiki Habyarimana
“My plants cried for rain, my heart withered with them, then the long awaited rains came, but what rains! Winds and hail that completely obliterated the farm on which my hopes hinged. That is nature.”
Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Never give up on your dreams, because you never know which is destined to manifest.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

Robert Jackson Bennett
“Iron is iron. Stone is stone. Wood is wood. Objects have an uncomplicated sense of self, so to speak. Poeple, though, and living things... their sense of self is... complicated. Mutable. It changes. People don't think of themselves as just a bag of flehs and blood and bones, even if they basically are. They think of themselves as soldiers, as kings, as wives and husbands abd children... People can convince themselves to be anything, and because of that, the scrivings you bind them with can't stay anchored. To try to bind a person is like writing in the ocean.”
Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside

Jennifer Donnelly
“The fox cannot change her nature and I cannot change mine.”
Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“Nature of an artist something unseemly parallel the handprints of a genius misery”
Ben Jr Grey

Ruth Hogan
“In this world, Daisy, we are tiny. We can’t always win and we can’t always be happy. But the one thing that we can always do is try. There will always be Trashcan Johnsons”—a twitch of a smile crossed Daisy’s face—“ and you can’t change that. But you can change how she makes you feel.”

Daisy wasn't convinced. "How?"

"By climbing this tree with me."

It was the scariest thing Daisy had ever done. But somewhere before they reached the top a strange thing happened. Daisy's fear flew away like feathers in the world. At the bottom of the tree she was tiny, and the tree an invincible giant. At the top, the tree was still huge, but tiny though she was, she had climbed it.”
Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things

“After your good thought, write it down, thereafter you will achieve it”
Tadey Tadius

Ursula K. Le Guin
“There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.”
Ursula K. Le Guin

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