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“The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.”

Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle

“Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.”

Men World Life Ideas Death Dies Individual Nature He Man Friends Climate Soil Vegetation

Book:The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937

Source: The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937

“Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.”

Men Humans Looks Soul Nature Animal Rocks He Man Angel Down And Plant Beast Vegetables Lenses Human Soul Minerals Swarms Ascending

Author:C. A. Bartol

“The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.”

Men Life Nature Christianity Saws He Man Bird Died Wave Subtle Stormy Wave Of Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.”

Men Nature Decision Opinion He Man Kings Justify Egotistical Wrong Decision

Author:Ruben Papian

“The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.”

Men Death Peace Nature Hours Walks Effort Path Honest Honesty He Man Draws Aim Life And Death Vigorous

Book:Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem

Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

Men Real Running Nature Sadness He Man Sorrow Delight Spite One With Nature The Wild Nature

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

Source: The Portable William Blake

“The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its exertion, but in that it has a reason and a law. For men of the first class, nature is a picture; for men of the second class, it is an opportunity; for men of the third class, it is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. These are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn.”

“It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life.”

Men Want Art Use Science Humanity Nature Ability Quality Study He Man Ready Materials Calling Tools Sake Practicals Daily Life Application Usefulness

Author:Louis Agassiz

“The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.”

Men Science Nature Natural He Man Contact Man And Nature

Author:Anatole France