"Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos."
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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment."
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"To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel."
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"The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still."
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"We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body."
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"...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded."
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"Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star."
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"The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences."
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"Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing towards us, as well as our best possible attitude towards it. Therein lies the ordinary function of ready-made concepts, those stations with which we mark out the path of becoming. But to seek to penetrate with them into the inmost nature of things, is to apply to the mobility of the real a method created in order to give stationary points of observation on it."
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"In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous."
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"You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature."
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"The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein."
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"No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears."
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"This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy."
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"It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming."
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"The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for."
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"How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful."
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"...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things."
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"Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of the science, and thus what appears to us as elegance of description really reflects the interconnectedness of Nature's laws at different levels."
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"Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."
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