“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
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“There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.”
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
“Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!”
“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”
“Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.”
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.”
“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.”
“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”
“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”
“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.”
“We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.”
“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.”
“Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.”
“A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.”
“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”
“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”
“Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.”
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
“The good man is the friend of all living things.”
“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”
“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”