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" Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. "
John Burroughs
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" The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. "
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" Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. "
Steven Pinker
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" That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. "
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" String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect. "
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" Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. "
Thomas Campbell
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" Nature is a petrified magic city. "
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" Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. "
Adlai E. Stevenson
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" Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest. "
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" Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. "
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" Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems. "
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" The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject. "
Edmund Husserl
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" Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. "
John Burroughs
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You
" Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature. "
John Burroughs
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" Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities - political, commercial, sociological, scientific - of the times in which I have lived. "
John Burroughs
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" One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. "
Jack London
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Nature
Itself
" The poetry of the earth is never dead. "
John Keats
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Poetry
Never
" There are always flowers for those who want to see them. "
Henri Matisse
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" I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have. "
Julie Bowen
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" We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. "
Albert Einstein
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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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" If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature. "
John Burroughs
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Name
Nature
" Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. "
Henry Adams
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Nature
" Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature. "
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" A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did. "
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Somebody
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" The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable. "
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" I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm. "
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" When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. "
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" Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. "
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" I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. "
Wendell Berry
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