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Nature
«The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose.»
«The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.»
Author: E. F. Schumacher
(Economist, Founder)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
adjusting, balancing, cleansing, tends, tends to, the system
«The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach»
Author: Henry Beston
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
beach, elemental, ocean, On the Beach, outer, primeval, sounds, The Beaches, The Sound, The three, wood
«The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it?s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its lovliness.»
«The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty,
Nature
| Keywords:
preservation, that is to say
«The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| About:
Appearance,
Happiness,
Nature,
Suffering
| Keywords:
in due course, in due season, Summer and
«The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Nature,
Truth
| Keywords:
adds, arises, assembled, assembling, evident, grandeur, one way, The Search, wholly
«The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Mystery,
Nature,
Words
| Keywords:
arbitrariness, charm, describing, enchantment, fairy, spell, terms
«Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Nature,
Painting
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, backs, copied, deliberately, preconceived, work in
«The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Imagination,
Inspiration,
Joy,
Nature
| Keywords:
deformities, deformity, green, greener, greens, moves, ridicule, ridiculed, ridicules, scarce, scarcer, scarcest, stands, The greens, thing in itself, Tree