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“In that year [1865] John Muir offered to buy from his brother ... a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.”

Years Stills Ideas Natural Land Youth Brother Birth Mercy Sanctuary Wisconsin Wild And Free Wildflowers

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.”

Children Age Young Force Parent Realizing Loses Natural Mercy Aging Heredity Parent Child

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my father passed on to me, that knowledge liberates mankind from superstition. We can live our lives without the constant fear that we have offended this or that deity who must be placated by incantation or sacrifice, or that we are at the mercy of devils or the Fates. With increasing knowledge, the intellectual darkness that surrounds us is illuminated and we learn more of the beauty and wonder of the natural world.”

“When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.”

“I don't know if most people have truly taken on board what this says about our place in the natural world. It doesn't mean that humans are dominating the Earth, ruling over all of nature. In fact, it is a reminder that we are only a tiny part of nature, at the mercy of a system whose operations predate us by billions of years, and will continue billions of years after we're gone.”

People Ifs Knows World Years Humans Mean Facts Earth Natural Gone Taken Mercy Billions Tiny Operations Boards Ruling Reminders Natural World Dominating

Author:Annalee Newitz

“The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy; the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.”

Life Should Mind Shows Christian Natural Justice Quality Teach Draws Mercy Christian Life Former Latter Sweetness Maxims Temperament Symbolic Harshness

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.”

Stills Bigs Earth Natural Technology Modern Easier Mercy Disaster Invention Just One Bad Ass Modern Life Wipe Natural Disaster

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.”

Humans Shows Law Science Nature Natural Judging Mercy Appeals Laws Of Nature

Book:The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: A Meeting with Medusa

Source: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: A Meeting with Medusa

“While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.”

Said Might Form Grows Natural Emotion Air Limits Mercy Eternity Faculty Seeming New Friends New Friendship Making New Friends

Book:The Friendship of Christ

Source: The Friendship of Christ

“God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.”

“Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him). He does not seek gain, but does not despise his followers who do. He struggles not for wealth, but does not take credit for leaving it alone... The ranks and emoluments of the world are to him no cause for joy, it's punishments and shame no cause for disgrace.”

Men World Doe Joy Causes Natural Wealth Struggle Gains Mercy Shame Charity Leaving Credit Punishment Great Men Taoism Followers Despise Disgrace

Author:Zhuangzi

“Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self.”

Source: Healology