"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."
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"As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite."
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"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
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"The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names."
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"Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint."
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"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
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"The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine.""
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"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
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"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."
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"Nature provides exceptions to every rule."
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"Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life."
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"Nature is the art of God."
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"We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us."
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"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."
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"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn."
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"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."
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"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it"
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"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
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