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nature children men
In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only! Henry David Thoreau
nature voice saddening
The voice of nature is always encouraging. Henry David Thoreau
nature
It's football. It's kind of the nature of the game, the nature of the beast, and we'll find out. Ron Rivera
nature book reading
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. R. Buckminster Fuller
nature travel art
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting. Leonardo da Vinci
nature travel vision
I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision. Leonardo da Vinci
nature desire world
Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world. Leonardo da Vinci
nature causes needs
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment. Leonardo da Vinci
nature law religion
Nature never breaks her own laws. Leonardo da Vinci
flower worry positive-energy
With negative energy you can make the positive energy. A flower will become compost someday, but if you know how to transform the compost back into the flower, then you don't have to worry. You don't have to worry about your anger because you know how to handle it - to embrace, to recognize, and to transform it. So this is what is possible. Nhat Hanh
flower looks cosmos
Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos. Nhat Hanh
flower heart garden
May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers. Nhat Hanh
flower rain golden
And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain! John Greenleaf Whittier
flower sunshine woods
Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers! John Greenleaf Whittier
flower garden tree
Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all. John Greenleaf Whittier
flower fall autumn
The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost. John Greenleaf Whittier
flower fall power
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. John Greenleaf Whittier
flower vases rooms
If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers. John Green
animal soul special
The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action. Aristotle
animal contrary dangerous eating lion people riding shark tiger
Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see. ![]()
animal men thinking
The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent. Sam Peckinpah
animal forever heaven
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for ... Sam Keen
animal mountain desert
Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs. Saadi
animal human-nature should
It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all. Stevie Smith
animal kingdoms totems
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. Thomas Szasz
animal men air
Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life... Robert Bridges
animal tennessee mules
In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules. Tina Turner