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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. "
Voltaire
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First
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" Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems. "
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" Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. "
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" To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. "
Henry Ward Beecher
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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. "
Robert Redford
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" Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. "
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" Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. "
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" He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. "
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" To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. "
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" Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. "
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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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" The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money. "
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" I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. "
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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. "
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" The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. "
Voltaire
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" Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. "
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" Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. "
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" The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. "
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" I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. "
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" The nature of Homeland Security is that no news is good news. And no news sometimes means somebody got interdicted at the border, somebody got interdicted before they could get on an airplane, somebody was arrested providing material support to terrorism. Homeland Security means very often something you never hear about. "
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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. "
John Burroughs
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Stone
Spark
" The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. "
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Earth
" The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. "
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" How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature! "
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" Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. "
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" In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. "
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" People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature. "
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" There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. "
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" Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors. "
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" Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. "
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