Quotations
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Nature
«The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.»
Author: Cyrano De Bergerac
| About:
Arrogance,
Nature
| Keywords:
afire, apples, arrogance, cabbages, conceivable, human head, insufferable, ripen, set afire, solely
«The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.»
«The laws of nature are written deep in the folds and faults of the earth. By encouraging men to learn those laws one can lead them further to a knowledge of the author of all laws.»
Author: John Joseph Lynch
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
encouraging, folds, Laws of nature, The Author
«The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body»
Author: Marcus Fabius Quintilian
| About:
Nature
«The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.»
Author: Morris K. Udall
(Congressman)
| About:
Civilization,
Environment,
Nature,
Survival
| Keywords:
options
«The French have taste in all they do - which we are quite without; For Nature, that to them gave gout, To us gave only gout»
«The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Happiness,
Life,
Nature,
Quality,
Thought,
Virtue
| Keywords:
accordingly, entertain, guard, notions, reasonable, take care, unsuitable
«The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Nature,
Truth
| Keywords:
claims, Dharma, recompense, recompenses, recompensing, seeks, transcends, vessel