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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”

Humans Reason Action Desire Passion Causes Nature Chance Habit Philosophical Excellence Seven Compulsion Human Actions Daily Habits Moral Excellence Passion And Desire Passion For Excellence

Author:Aristotle

“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”

“Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.”

“"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."”

Source: The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Humans Science Nature Chance Race Planets Approach Survival Beats Human Race Submission Pessimistic Ingenious

Author:E. B. White

“Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.”

Life Nature Chance Lack Of Knowledge

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.”

People Ifs World Individual Nature Natural Chance Gone Environment Tree Rocks Destroyed Soil Wilderness Natural World Competent Vertical

Book:The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner

Source: The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner