"I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind."

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Source : Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253

Henry Walter Bates

#Nature Quotes #Heart Quotes #Mind Quotes

“One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another.”
“From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.”
“Prayerlessness is sin.”
“Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.”
“Practice writing and speaking about what you do.”
“I hate girls who complain, 'Oh, guys are looking at me!' But I love it when guys check me out. It just feels great.”
“Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.”
“We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!”

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