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Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
- Change
What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850Lost Illusions, Part II: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (1839), tr. Ellen Marriage, ch. I
- Art
There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.
Samuel Beckett1906–1989Molloy (1951)
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234
- God
A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.
Cyrano de Bergerac1619–1655The Other World (1657)
- Philosophy
We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. … We have been wrong.
Wendell Berry1934–2026The Long-Legged House (1969), “A Native Hill”
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry1934–2026Part of an endorsement statement for The Dying of the Trees (1997) by Charles E. Little
- Politics
Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it.
Wendell Berry1934–2026“Compromise, Hell!” Orion magazine (November/December 2004)
What I stand for
is what I stand on.
Wendell Berry1934–2026“Below” in A Part (1980)
- Character
It is impossible to care for each other more or differently than we care for the earth.
Wendell Berry1934–2026The Unsettling of America (1977), Chapter Seven: The Body and the Earth
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
The Bible (King James Version)Proverbs 30:18–19 (KJV)In context
- Love
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 1:4–5 (KJV)In context
- Life & Death
- Time
Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
William Blake1757–1827Auguries of Innocence (c. 1803)In context
- Time
Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.
PBPaul Boese
- Motivation & Goals