{"quotes":[{"text":"Every summer there are a number of nights, not many, but a number, when everything is perfect. The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong – the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?","author":"Fredrik Sjöberg","tags":["island-landscape","island-summer","natural-world","nature","summer","swedish-island","swedish-summer"],"id":3995,"author_id":"Fredrik+Sj%C3%B6berg"},{"text":"There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["connection","ecosystem","natural-world","organism"],"id":9574,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"The thoughts of Man build future worlds, whilst the emotions of the Fey build up this, our Natural World.","author":"Gabriel Brunsdon","tags":["natural-world","the-fey","thoughts"],"id":15661,"author_id":"Gabriel+Brunsdon"},{"text":"In the most surreal, the most joyful, the most beautiful, the most intense, the most alive moments of life, you are absorbed into the horizon which is at its most invisible, elusive, perfect blend of sky and sea.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["alive","beauty","experience","horizon","joy","life","natural-world","surreal"],"id":27870,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"},{"text":"Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["devour","devoured","devours","environment","environmental","environmental-conservation","environmental-degradation","environmental-protection","environmental-values","environmentalism","extinction","natural","natural-disasters","natural-law","natural-selection","natural-world","naturalism","silence","silence","silenced","species","species-relations","victim","victims"],"id":45352,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are tired.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["governance","india","natural-world","tropics"],"id":56089,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward — and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs — only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["afterlife","birth","born","born-again","circle","circles","closes","cosmic","cosmic-heart","creation","currents","cycle","cycle-of-life","cycles","death","destruction","destructs","dies","direction","dreams","dying","end","ending","energy","evolution","expands","geometria","harmonic-principles","harmonics","heart","infinity","knowledge","life","living-things","lotus","lotus-flower","matter","metaphysics","mother-nature","natural-world","nature","opposite","philosopher","philosophy","physics","poet","reality","rebirth","reborn","reincarnation","relgion","repeat","repeats","science","soul","spirals","spiritual","spirituality","suzy-kassem","theory","time","transform","transforms","true","turns","universe","vibration","vibrations","wisdom"],"id":83003,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"See how forgiving - how brave nature is.","author":"Yusef Komunyakaa","tags":["forgiveness","forgiving","life","natural-world","nature"],"id":89825,"author_id":"Yusef+Komunyakaa"},{"text":"If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["cause","cause-and-effect","cause-problems","change","changed","disease","disease-control","disease-prevention","electromagnetic","electromagnetic-radiation","electromagnetic-wave","environment","environmental","human","humanity","humans","illness","increase","level","levels","natural","natural-world","radiation","radiation-effects"],"id":96907,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["humanity","life","life-application","meaning","natural-world","purpose","quotes"],"id":97366,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}