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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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" Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. "

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" All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. "

" 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. "

" It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. "

" There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. "

Henry David Thoreau

" In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. "

" Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him. "

" Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can. "

" Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. "

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" It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. "

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" All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from. "

" Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. "

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" It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels. "

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