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  • It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Nature Quotes , Struggle Quotes
  • My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Nature Quotes , Hard Work Quotes
  • The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies--and will end in destroying the very environment from which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Life Quotes , Nature Quotes
  • A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Wall Quotes
  • I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Nature Quotes , Two Quotes