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" You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. "

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" When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. "

" 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. "

" Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. "

" Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. "

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" I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. "

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

" Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. "

" Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. "

" To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical. "

" Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. "

Henry David Thoreau

" In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. "

" One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high. "

Ezra Taft Benson

" On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. "

" With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea. "

" Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. "

" Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature. "

" The sea has neither meaning nor pity. "

" Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. "

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" Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better. "

" We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher. "

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" I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude. "

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" By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them. "

" Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world? "

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