"...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts."
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"Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths."
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"I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it."
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"Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason."
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"In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own."
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"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence."
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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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"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."
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"Nature hates calculators."
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"People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually."
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"We need silence to be able to touch souls."
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"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
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"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
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"Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas."
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"In the woods we return to reason and faith."
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"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."
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"The good man is the friend of all living things."
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"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
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"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea."
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"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
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