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“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.”— Ansel Adams
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“Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.”— Carl Sandburg
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“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.”— Vincent Van Gogh
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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”— Samuel Johnson
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“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”— Leo Tolstoy
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“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”— Alfred Tennyson
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“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”— Franz Kafka
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“Water is the driving force of all nature.”— Leonardo da Vinci
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“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”— Charles Darwin
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“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”— Napoleon Hill
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“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”— Aristotle
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“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”— William Shakespeare
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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”— Rabindranath Tagore
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“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.”— Aristotle
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“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.”— Voltaire
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“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.”— Niels Bohr
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“What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”— James Madison
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“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.”— Marshall McLuhan
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“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”— Walt Whitman
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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”— Lao Tzu
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“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.”— Aristotle
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“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”— Edmund Burke