“Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.” WayMayReasonHandsAmericaLyingNatureVisionPrinciplesDestinyFateEventsPrideDetermineImpulseArroganceOur FutureTidesOur DestinyIrresistibleMatched Author:Robert Kennedy
“Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.” NeedsSometimesLawLiteratureNaturePerfectVirtueInspireVicesImpulseEquilibriumMaintenance Author:Marquis de Sade
“One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.” MenMayEvilNatureMoralTeachTreeEducationalWoodsForestsImpulseSageNature Of ManTree Of LifeEarth And NatureGood NatureForests And TreesOne With NatureAnimals In NatureMan And NatureTree Of KnowledgeWoods And ForestsMoral Evil Author:William Wordsworth
“Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.” FirstsEarthNaturePiecesLandStandingWestSouthCornersImpulseIslandsSpontaneousCliffsApplauseNew ZealandTerrain Book:Last Chance To See Source: Last Chance To See
“The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress, and to begin quite humbly to follow the guidance of the larger community on which all life depends.” EarthForceProcessVoiceNatureCommunityAnimalDependsPatternsCeaseCommandImpulseGuidanceImposing Author:Thomas Berry
“"One impulse from a vernal wood” NatureTreeWoodsForestsImpulseTree Of LifeEarth And NatureForests And TreesOne With NatureAnimals In NatureTree Of KnowledgeWoods And ForestsMoral Evil Author:William Wordsworth
“Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.” LifeHumansNaturePleasureEssentialsDiversityGardenImpulseAbundanceGardeningInnate Author:E. O. Wilson