"Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed"
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"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."
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"Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!"
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"I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles."
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"Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules."
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"The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it"
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"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."
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"So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening."
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"Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry."
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"My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it."
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"The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims."
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"Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change."
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"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."
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"To create a little flower is the labour of ages."
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"Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will."
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"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on."
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"Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by."
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"In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight."
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"A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me."
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"For man is by nature an artist."
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