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" The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. "
Herbert Read
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" My dream is to save women from nature. "
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" The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away. "
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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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" Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. "
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" There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. "
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" Nature does nothing in vain. "
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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. "
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" There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. "
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" What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. "
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" And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun. "
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" I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. "
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" It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place. "
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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
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" All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature. "
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" Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. "
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" Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. "
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" I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. "
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" The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. "
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" I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. "
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" Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. "
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" Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. "
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" In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. "
Thomas Hobbes
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" Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly. "
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" Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. "
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