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"The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new."
"While cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."
"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature."
"I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles."
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
"Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony."
"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."
"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."
"There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords."
"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"
"If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees."
"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky."
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
"And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest."
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
"Man is by nature a political animal."
"It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths."
"The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind."
