"If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us."
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"Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature."
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"We want to see oil and gas regulations on a continental basis given the integrated nature of this industry, with the current conditions in the oil and gas sector, this government will not consider unilateral regulation."
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"Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation in the composition of air, the precise suitability of food, makes all the difference between health and sickness; between life and death."
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"As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty."
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"It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity."
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"Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post."
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"The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God."
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"Nature doesn't make long speeches."
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"All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom."
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"Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch."
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"Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when dead they become withered and dry. Therefore it is said: the hard and tough are parts of death; the soft and tender are parts of life."
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"There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone."
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"Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them."
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"The source of nature is spirit."
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"It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves."
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"Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances."
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"Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices."
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"Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small."
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"The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man."
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