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" The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. "
John Muir
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Spiritual
Civilization
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" The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. "
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" 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. "
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" I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness. "
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" The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life. "
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" In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times. "
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" Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. "
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" There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit. "
Douglas Adams
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" A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own terms. "
Michael Frome
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" Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating. "
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" Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. "
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" Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. "
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" We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. "
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" All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know? "
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" Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. "
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" I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude. "
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" No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment. "
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