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" My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. "

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" Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. "

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Organization

" Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. "

" There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. "

" Nature abhors annihilation. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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" I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. "

" The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. "

" Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. "

" Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. "

" Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life. "

" The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. "

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Sea

Wonder

Spell

" I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. "

" Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. "

" All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. "

" Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Find

Free

" America's exceptional nature confers upon us responsibilities. We are not exceptional because we say so; we are exceptional because, over and over, we do exceptional things - things like what Generals Marshall and MacArthur accomplished putting Europe and Japan back on their feet after World War II. "

" The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand. "

" Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it's important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing. "

" One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought. "

" Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. "

" I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence. "

" 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. "

" The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. "

e. e. cummings

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World

" Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. "

" And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun. "

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

" I am two with nature. "

Woody Allen

Two

I Am

" The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art

Counterpart

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" The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

Achievement

Personal

Nature

" I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. "

" The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. "