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" Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight. "
Daniel Boone
Delight
Nature
Fund
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" Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. "
Albert Einstein
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" You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos. "
Rudolf Steiner
Human Nature
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Relationship
" There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. "
David Hume
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" Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. "
Lewis Thomas
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Humanity
Most
" The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. "
Jean Giraudoux
Life
Poetry
Example
" Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? "
William C. Bryant
Where
Find
Bring
" Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. "
Josef Albers
Than
Real
Abstraction
" The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. "
William Bartram
Place
Travel
Attention
" Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature. "
Andrea Arnold
Life
Nature
Go
" Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. "
B. B. King
Force
Growing
Nature
" The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. "
Tennessee Williams
Broken
Rocks
Nature
" The sea has neither meaning nor pity. "
Anton Chekhov
Pity
Sea
Neither
" Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. "
Mao Zedong
Thought
Nature
Flowers
" Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better. "
Dan Pink
Great
Work
Tree
" May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! "
Daniel Boone
Monster
War
Her
" 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. "
John Mackey
Down
Sky
You
" If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. "
Jon Meacham
Gender
Society
Nature
" Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. "
Emily Dickinson
She
Harm
Mother
" One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. "
Loren Eiseley
Without
Star
Nature
" 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. "
Margo Jefferson
Clever
Nature
End
" Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. "
Honore de Balzac
Animals
Society
Nature
" The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at. "
William C. Bryant
Heaven
Eye
Blue
" I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. "
John D. Rockefeller
Nature
Perseverance
Quality
" Water is the driving force of all nature. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Water
Driving
Force
" I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am. "
Brian McDermott
Nature
Go
Try
" 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. "
Cary Fowler
Mind
Diversity
Enough
" The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. "
Rabindranath Tagore
Time
Nature
Butterfly
" I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, growing up in the city, I'd missed out on a lot of nature. "
Robert Redford
City
Growing Up
She
" I love not man the less, but Nature more. "
Lord Byron
More
I Love
Less
" Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be. "
Sharon Salzberg
Crazy
Law
World