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Nature
«Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.»
Author: Dave Foreman
| About:
Environment,
Nature,
Problems
| Keywords:
Cancer, central, central nervous system, environmental, hubris, imagining, nervous, originate, originate in, The central
«Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.»
Author: George Washington Carver
(Chemist, Educator, horticulturist)
| About:
God,
Nature
| Keywords:
books, carefully, fine, fined, Into the Woods, In books, learned person, listens, reading, speak, The Voice, voice, walks, woods
«Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature»
Author: Petronius
| About:
Beauty,
Being a Woman,
Gifts,
Nature,
Women
| Keywords:
attractive, outward, playfulness, sweet talk, transcend
«Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| About:
Genius,
Nature,
Solitude
| Keywords:
combined, diligent, exact, experiments, geniuses, observation, These Three
«Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Living,
Nature
| Keywords:
burgeon, burgeoning, burgeons, Sun rise, wither
«Our foster-nurse of nature is repose»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
Foster, nurse, repose