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"That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only."
"I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific."
"I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
"Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course."
"Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread."
"Nothing is evil which is according to nature."
"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."
"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."
"It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames."
"As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to our real or fabricated needs, nature remains opaque, and does not reveal to us its true being."
"Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms."
"There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment."
"The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA."
"The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature."
""But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment.""
"By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe."
"Land really is the best art."
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
"A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he."
"The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can."
