The ‘healthy’ sign, for Barthes, is one which draws attention to its own arbitrariness—which does not try to palm itself off as ‘natural’ but which, in the very moment of conveying a meaning, communicates something of its own relative, artificial status as well. …Signs which pass themselves off as natural, which offer themselves as the only conceivable way of viewing the world, are by that token authoritarian and ideological. It is one of the functions of ideology to ‘naturalize’ social reality, to make it seem as innocent and unchangeable as Nature itself. Ideology seeks to convert culture into Nature, and the ‘natural’ sign is one of its weapons. Saluting a flag, or agreeing that Western democracy represents the true meaning of the word ‘freedom’, become the most obvious, spontaneous responses in the world. Ideology, in this sense, is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
Terry EagletonMots clés history nature ideology semiotics structuralism barthes mythologies
There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up.
Charmian HusseyMots clés nature pleasure flowers plants cheerful
Another day without no rain, is another day of sorrow.
And if it doesn't rain today, I hope it rains tomorrow.
Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive social control, labelling individuals and forcing them to conform to arbitrary definitions of ‘normality’. This charge is in fact more usually aimed against psychiatric medicine as a whole: as far as Freud’s own views on ‘normality’ are concerned, the accusation is largely misdirected. Freud’s work showed, scandalously, just how ‘plastic’ and variable in its choice of objects libido really is, how so-called sexual perversions form part of what passes as normal sexuality, and how heterosexuality is by no means a natural or self-evident fact. It is true that Freudian psychoanalysis does usually work with some concept of a sexual ‘norm’; but this is in no sense given by Nature.
Terry EagletonMots clés sexuality nature freud psychiatry heterosexuality norms libido
Fairies with gossamer wings,
Bring forth beauty, grace and joyful things.
Fairies of the earth are caretakers of our soil, water and trees,
They watch over beautiful creatures such as bears, bunnies and bees.
Fairies ask that you breathe in and appreciate the vantage point from which you stand,
Then trod carefully and respectfully with each intentional step you make across this beautiful land.
Mots clés inspiration nature inspirational-quotes spirituality angels earth walking fairies bees bunnies air creatures breathe gossamer-wings intentional-step
I am grateful for the magic, mystery and majesty of nature – my loyal friend and companion – always there, welcoming and waiting for me to come; to be healed.
Tom NorthMots clés nature magic mystery healing
The sky
Scorched by the sun,
Weeps
Fecund tears.
Mots clés nature
The mountains are intimations of transcendence, which he is now free to pursue, and the walking writes messages in every cell of his body, telling him that he is not locked inside a cement box, nor in a water drum, but is moving forward.
Michael D. O'BrienMots clés nature transcendence mountains
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.
Mark NepoMots clés wisdom poetry writing inspiration beauty peace nature inspirational-quotes miracles awareness listening wisdom-quotes poetry-quotes inspiratinoal
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
Edward O. WilsonMots clés nature mankind earth
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