"Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak."
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"By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains."
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"No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper."
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"There are no vacant lots in nature."
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"A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization."
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"Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops."
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"The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization."
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"Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . ."
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"The passion to explore is at the heart of being human."
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"At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature."
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"Nature is stronger than education."
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"The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature."
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"Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature."
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"But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving"
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"Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause."
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"Flowers are heaven's masterpiece."
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"Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist."
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"If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before."
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"Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;."
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"I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle."
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