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“[A persons] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.”

Persons Art Values Nature Industry Equal Productions Mortification

Book:Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

Source: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

“Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution.”

States Body Science Process Nature Greater Higher Equal Heat Probability Distribution Temperature

Book:Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909

Source: Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909

“Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.”

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit

“Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.”

Men Ends Use Literature Nature Produce Equal Extremes Mysterious

Book:Moral essays

Source: Moral essays

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.”

“By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.”

Men Nature Love Is Powerful Liberty Equal Equality Thoughtful Endowment Equality For All Liberty And Equality Equality Of Man Human Equality

Book:St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts

Source: St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts

“For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.”

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Author:Janine Benyus

“But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.”

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.”