"Nature is not human hearted."
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"Everything in nature acts in conformity with law."
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"A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature."
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"It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out."
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"Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together."
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"Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart."
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"I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature."
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"Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters."
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"The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand."
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"Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature."
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"What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying."
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"Victory is by nature insolent and haughty."
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"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature."
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"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me."
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"There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough."
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"Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
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"We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy."
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"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see."
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"In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself."
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