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“Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself.”

Moving Evil Natural Perfect Animal Impossible All Things Unions Species Inclination

Book:Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

Source: Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

“Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stone he shares existence, with the plants he shares life, with the animals he shares sensation, and with the angels he shares intelligence. Thus all things are transformed in Christ since in the fullness of his nature he embraces some part of every creature.”

Christ Animal Common Existence Share Creatures Angel All Things Stones Embrace Plant Sensations Transformed Fullness

Author:Bonaventure

“All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.”

Want Body Seems Earth Nature Change Animal Air Mountain All Things Plant Passing Passings Smoke Perpetual Consumption Incessantly Adamant

Book:The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.”

Men World Mean Able Humanity Father Animal Principles Struggle All Things Preserves Brutal Animal World

Book:Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943

Source: Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943

“The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.”

People Ifs World May Stills Spiritual Order Dies Belief Natural Animal Views All Things Plant Unity Natural World Eden Spiritual Beliefs

Author:Michael Crichton