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“The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.”

Heart Lying Nature Perfect Judgment Models Gains Rely Copying Gateways Helm Stout

Book:The Craftsman's Handbook

Source: The Craftsman's Handbook

“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”

Fall Nature Beauty Dying Gains Sunset Autumn Gorgeous Apes Buttocks Harlem Renaissance

Author:Langston Hughes

“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem.”

“Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.”

May Persons Science Nature Natural Interesting Secret Gains Concerned Deeper Insight Priorities Insignificance

Author:Lord Kelvin

“We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.”

Ends Law Understanding Nature Conflict Gains Laws Of Nature

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values