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" God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. "

Quintilian

Nature

Man

Him

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" I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. "

" Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. "

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Sometimes

Gladness

" Nature uses as little as possible of anything. "

" Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. "

" I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia were Sri Lanka and Bali. "

" Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. "

" By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them. "

" To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature. "

" In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. "

Quintilian

Everything

Experience

" It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. "

" Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature. "

" Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. "

" I love not man the less, but Nature more. "

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I Love

Less

" External nature is only internal nature writ large. "

" Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. "

" Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole. "

" Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. "

" Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. "

" I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head. "

" How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate. "

" There is the sky, which is all men's together. "

" For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. "

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Forces

Landscape

" The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. "

" We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. "

" Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. "

" Nature is a petrified magic city. "

" Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. "

" Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. "

" In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. "