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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 artist opposites
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. 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 infinite
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. Leonardo da Vinci
heaven legends crime
Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are. James A. Baldwin
heaven church christianity
Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception. George Washington
heaven found certainty
If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without. Henry Miller
heaven suffering earth
Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite. Henri Frederic Amiel
heaven earth infinite
From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite. Henri Frederic Amiel
heaven world demon
Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore. Cassandra Clare
heaven world
So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world. George Eliot
heaven mind movement
How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near? George Eliot
heaven earth fit
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful. George Eliot
earth identify manual operate passengers problem spaceship
Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship. Richard Fuller
earth playing
I mean, we're on Earth, but he's playing on a different planet. Nicolas Kiefer
earth humans human-beings
Tall poplars--human beings of this earth! Paul Celan
earth heroes
For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb. Pericles
earth pop
They're like manna from heaven, but they pop up out of the earth. Ed Baker