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 EmersonTags: energy intellect ethereal-tides great-public-power individual-man life-of-the-universe nature-of-things
Though his health and family had been broken in the process, he'd found his purpose in life — to share the ancient key discovered anew in the garden: if we feed the earth, it will feed us.
I see that is the secret, too, to living. Though the earth demands its sacrifices, spring will always return
Tags: seasons life-and-death nature-of-things
In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.
Daniel WallaceTags: truth sympathy nature-of-things
We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising.
Lynn SchoolerTags: existence wind nature-of-things
The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.
Wil McCarthyTags: cats universe point-of-view nature-of-things protagonists
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 UehashiTags: nature earth nature-of-things perfection-in-nature
Two or three million years ago, the Earth was a ball of fire, revolving arround it's own axis. It took millions of years to cool under the constant downpour of rain. The Process was slow, imperceptible, but the gradual change - transition - came to pass. Same for generation after generation of evolution on Earth.
Nature never jumps. She works in a leisurely manner, experimenting continuously. The same natural transition can be seen in man. This gradual change, transition, works every where, silently building storms and destroying soloar systems.
Tags: nature change transitions nature-of-things transitions-in-life
TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in a while she would blaze through the house and clean everything--at which point, the process would start all over.
Erica BauermeisterTags: children cleaning toys nature-of-things
I enjoy load shedding in Nepal, when it allows me to witness the dancing of fireflies in the next field, and at the same time to hear children playing a chanting clapping game because there is no TV to waste their time on.
Andrew James PritchardTags: children childhood meditation night-world nature-of-things load-shedding
A bird sings in the morning, an owl hoots at night...it's still a bloody bird.
Oliver ReedTags: nature-of-things
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