Alan Watts Quotes, Life Quotes, Nature 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.

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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

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We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

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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.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Nature Quotes , Struggle Quotes

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.

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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

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If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Nature Quotes , Time Quotes

Eliminate mental muddiness and obscurity; keep your mind crystal clear. Allow your pure original insight to emerge. Quiet your emotions and abide in serenity. Don't go crazy with the worship of idols, images, and ideas; this is like putting a new head on top of the head you already have. Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

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Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

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