“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?”
— Albert J. Nock
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Category: nature
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“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.”
— Hal Borland
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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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“Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.”
— Bodhidharma
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“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”
— George Byron
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“The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”
— William Hazlitt
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“As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.”
— David Suzuki
Author: David Suzuki
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“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”
— Thomas Huxley
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“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”
— Jane Austen
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“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”
— Marcus Aurelius
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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