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“exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.”

Animal Effort Saws Strange Rain Roots Chaos Seeds Odd Sunset Exaggerated Collision

Book:Different Hours: Poems

Source: Different Hours: Poems

“The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

Want Humans Certain Forget Animal Effort Struggle Amount Essentials Mere Absence Remove Ingredients Indispensable Adapted Human Animal

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.”

Men Years Humans Wells I Can Three Animal Effort Human Nature Genius Thousand Hundred Years Ago Extraordinary Customs Vegetables Fifteen Thousand Years Wiser Vary

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.”

Ifs Humans Animal Effort Areas Species Disappear Preserves Wilderness

Author:Matthew Fox

“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.”

Giving Doe God Success Humanity Work Animal Effort Bird Godly Nests Hustle Work Effort Effort And Hard Work Bird Watching

Author:J. G. Holland

“Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to exalt a highly unlikely, unknowable, unseeable, unprovable and unbelievable pretend afterworld. The only afterlife that ought to concern us is leaving our descendants (along with the other animals and life we share our planet with) a secure and pleasant future.”

World Humans Lying Order Sin Animal Effort Share This World Planets Ought Resources Concern Leaving Secure Pleasant Endeavor Afterlife Unbelievable Unlikely Our Planet Descendants

Author:Annie Laurie Gaylor