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Nature

«We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.»
«We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.»
«We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open»
Author: Shakti Gawain | About: Genius, Nature | Keywords: conform, conform to, models
«Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of NATURE. But there is an even more powerful dimension of NATURE which is a blessing to humans; courage, intelligence, compassion and the power to stand again.»
«Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals. Nature uses both kingdoms to form all existing combustible mat»
«What is art? Nature concentrated.»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | About: Art, Nature | Keywords: concentrated
«We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power.. the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.»
«What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.»
Author: Aldous Huxley (Critic, Novelist) | About: Nature
«We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | About: Nature | Keywords: obeying
«Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good»