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“It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.”

Men Ends Earth Animal Cutting Tree Rocks Destruction Environmental Streams Formulas Agriculture Nature Of Man Negation Short Cuts Panacea

Author:Louis Bromfield

“God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.”

Men Dream Sleep Animal Rocks Plant

Author:Ibn Arabi

“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.”

Source: The Training Of The Human Plant

“Unlike a child in a totally urban environment, my friends and peer group were not only other children, but also wild and domesticated animals, plants of every sort, brooks and waterfalls, rocks and sand.”

Children Animal Environment Groups Rocks My Friends Plant Sand Urban Peers Brooks Waterfalls Peer Group Domesticated Animals Urban Environment

Author:Freeman Patterson

“Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.”

Men Humans Looks Soul Nature Animal Rocks He Man Angel Down And Plant Beast Vegetables Lenses Human Soul Minerals Swarms Ascending

Author:C. A. Bartol

“Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.”

Animal Influence Rocks Huge Albums Rock N Roll

Author:Al Jourgensen

“Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”

Littles Has Beens Whole Running Universe Bits Animal Rocks Little Bit Mates Running Away End Times Spend Time Dividing

Author:Terry Pratchett

“And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.”

Wells Feelings Understanding Community Animal Rocks Missing Plant Soil Plants And Animals

Book:The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.

Source: The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.