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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. "

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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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" A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. "

" 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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" Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. "

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" Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. "

" I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. "

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" There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. "

" As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway. "

" In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery. "

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" For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. "

" Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. "

Radhanath Swami

" The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. "

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" Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are. "

" A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. "

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" The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. "

" Sunlight is painting. "

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" All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. "

" Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. "

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" We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step. "

" Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. "

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" 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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