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«Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.»
Author: Dave Foreman
| About:
Environment,
Nature,
Problems
| Keywords:
Cancer, central, central nervous system, environmental, hubris, imagining, nervous, originate, originate in, The central
«Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.»
Author: George Washington Carver
(Chemist, Educator, horticulturist)
| About:
God,
Nature
| Keywords:
books, carefully, fine, fined, Into the Woods, In books, learned person, listens, reading, speak, The Voice, voice, walks, woods
«Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature»
Author: Petronius
| About:
Beauty,
Being a Woman,
Gifts,
Nature,
Women
| Keywords:
attractive, outward, playfulness, sweet talk, transcend
«Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.»
«Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| About:
Genius,
Nature,
Solitude
| Keywords:
combined, diligent, exact, experiments, geniuses, observation, These Three
«Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.»
«People must help one another; it is nature's law.»
«Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Living,
Nature
| Keywords:
burgeon, burgeoning, burgeons, Sun rise, wither
«Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.»
«Our foster-nurse of nature is repose»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
Foster, nurse, repose
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