Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.
Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
I have a problem with state lines, anyway. They interrupt things. They fragment ecosystems, which are nature's most gracious and logical land divisions.
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Because seeing someone’s heart ripped out, presumably for the first time, is something a person should accept naturally, like finding out there’s no Santa Clause.
[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a one.
...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.
But somehow, once you start playing behind the steering wheel of God, you realize just how powerful it is to be the imagination driving the natural world (64).
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
She is a beauty. She is a challenge. She is the earth. She is the nature. She is the power that keeps the balance of this world. Respect her wisdom and be intimidated by her power.
Without death, life would have no boundaries and our days would not be so precious. My mother was a firm believer in the common sense of nature.
The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .
A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.
Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws.
Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.
Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.
If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.
