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" We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous. "

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" To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. "

Adam Smith

Nature

Human Nature

Feel

" Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. "

" Do you know how much land is under ice, rock and snow? Do you know why 90 percent of us live within 100 kilometres of the U.S. border? We have this idea we're a vast country. But the reality is that a lot of it, a huge amount, is uninhabitable. "

" I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. "

" Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. "

" Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. "

" Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens. "

" Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. "

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

" President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe from another attack. The result has been increased security for the American people, who, in turn, have become complacent about the true nature of the threat. "

" To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature. "

" One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought. "

" I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. "

" I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. "

" Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. "

" You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac. "

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Nature

Confidence

Human Nature

" In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again. "

" It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. "

" Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. "

" He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. "

" Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Achieve

Power

Nature

" People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature. "

" The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual. "

" The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

Water

Fruit

Nature

" Behind every cloud is another cloud. "

" Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not. "

" Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. "

" I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. "

" Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. "

" Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.' "