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“One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“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

“All things and all acts and this whole wonderful universe proclaim to us the Lord our Father, Christ our love, Christ our hope, our portion, and our joy. Oh, brethren, if you would know the meaning of the world, read Christ in it. If you would see the beauty of earth, take it for a prophet of something higher than itself.”

Ifs Knows World Whole Earth Joy Universe Father Christ Nature Lord Wonderful Higher All Things Prophet Portions Our Love Our Father Brethren

Book:Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

“Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to live at higher elevations and regulate the temperature within our homes. It is a major issue because ecosystems are finding it difficult to adapt to the rapidity of the climate and environmental changes and are dying off, thereby accelerating the species extinction that is already underway due to our consumption habits.”

“Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.”

World Mean Art Artist Goal Nature Subjects This World Masters Higher Understood Slave Subservient Higher Goals

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.”

Moments Artist Values Nature Interesting Objects Higher Aspect Significant Characteristics Seizing

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.”

People Important Nature Justice Liberty Land Achieve Higher Absolutes Harmony Important Things Strive Aspiration

Book:Aldo Leopold's Southwest

Source: Aldo Leopold's Southwest

“I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.”

Believe Nature Realizing Creation Source Higher Organized Organized Religion

Author:Neil Young

“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? Will towns tole lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants?... I think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. The answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions.”

“From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.”

War Nature Animal Environment Objects Evolution Higher Capable Species Productions Famine Exalted Natural Selection Origin Of Species Conceiving

Author:Charles Darwin

“Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.”