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“If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.”

Ifs Men Care Winning Nature Sweet Built Squares Wiser Careless

Book:At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

Source: At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

“Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.”

Shows Order Growth Nature Community Economy Environment Healthy Smart Built Green Show Me Conservation Infrastructure Smart Growth

Author:Will Rogers

“Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.”

Hands Running Faces Hate Courses Nature Built Sacred Running Away Sanctity Runaway

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.”

“The ecologist has a much more comprehensive and holistic view of the world. We're looking at the natural environment as well as the human built environment and the connectivity between the two - how do the natural environment and the human-built environment interact and interface with each other.”

“If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?”

Ifs World Whole Nature Change Animal Sacrifice Building Built Bridges Novelists Changing The World New World Building Bridges

Author:Ismail Kadaré

“And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.”

Ifs World Firsts Kind Pain Universe Evil Nature Moral Built Supreme Superiors Supreme Being Vetinari

Book:Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)

Source: Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)

“Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ... 'So careful of the type', but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go' ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law- Tho' Nature red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.”

“Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.”

Wells Form Purpose House Goal Nature Plans Built Planning Plus Definite Blueprints

Book:The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

“Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium.”

“Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to plan for in a sense. I do not think Dr. Whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way; he has the art-an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature, so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan.”