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“But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.”

Ifs World Remember Nature Technology Generations Achieve Sorrow Gratitude Miracle Environmental Patriotic Glimpse Future Generation

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.”

People Important Nature Justice Liberty Land Achieve Higher Absolutes Harmony Important Things Strive Aspiration

Book:Aldo Leopold's Southwest

Source: Aldo Leopold's Southwest

“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”

Source: Monet: a retrospective

“Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.”

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.”

Men Way Ideas Science Purpose Nature Natural Achieve Ultimate Accounts Welfare Consideration Latter Usefulness Imitator

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.”

“Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.”

Form Science Time Nature Natural Achieve Wit Repetition Permanence

Book:The Works of George Santayana

Source: The Works of George Santayana

“If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.”

Ifs Feels I Can Speak Nature Achieve Effects Flower Garden Infinite Blue Tone Colour Someday Old Fashioned Matching Flower Garden Monet

Author:Marcel Proust