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" Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. "

George Bernard Shaw

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" Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. "

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" In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. "

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" The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. "

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" It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona. "

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" Nature is wont to hide herself. "

" Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. "

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" We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money. "

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" Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. "

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" The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. "

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" I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. "

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" Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature. "

" We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles. "

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" Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. "

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" While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth? "

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