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" I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad. "

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" I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now. "

Alice Walker

World

Self

Nature

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

" Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature. "

" There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. "

" Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. "

" The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature. "

" I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself. "

Queen Rania of Jordan

Little

Myself

" Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. "

" The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. "

" 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. "

" There's no night without stars. "

" It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. "

Philip Sidney

Heart

Strong

" To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. "

" The ocean is a mighty harmonist. "

" You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. "

" Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. "

" No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground. "

" To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species. "

" To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. "

" One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Birds

Taste

Nature

" America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think. "

" Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual. "

" The sea has neither meaning nor pity. "

" It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. "

" And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. "

" When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Walls

Glass

House

" Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature. "

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

Life

Soul

Nature

" During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. "

" All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures. "

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Nature

Perfect

Universe

" By 'justice', I understand nothing more than that bond which is necessary to keep the interest of individuals united, without which men would return to their original state of barbarity. All punishments which exceed the necessity of preserving this bond are, in their nature, unjust. "