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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. "

Douglas Tompkins

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

" Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. "

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

" If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale. "

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" A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. "

" I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature. "

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" To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. "

" The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. "

" I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. "

" You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor. "

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" The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. "

" 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. "

" Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. "

" I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate. "

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" 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. "

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" Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. "

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" When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. "

" Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. "

" I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. "

" To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. "

" 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. "

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" Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Behind every cloud is another cloud. "

" Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. "

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" A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. "

" What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. "