Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely."
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Environment
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Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions."
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Statesman, Founder of Republic
"A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment."
Synyster Gates
Musician, guitarist
"Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment."
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences."
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"In nature nothing exists alone."
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"The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself."
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"Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf."
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"For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that."
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"Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends."
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"Lose yourself in nature and find peace"
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"The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education."
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"Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment."
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"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
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"There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment"
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"Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves."
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"Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books."
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"In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it."
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"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."
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"Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally."
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"I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me."
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"Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked"
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"Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment."
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"The child should live in an environment of beauty."
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"I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me."
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