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“Visible nature is but a distorted reflection of a more perfect world and the creative individual viewing her is inspired to perceive within and behind her many garments, that which is timeless and entirely beautiful.”

World Beautiful Individual Nature Perfect Behinds Creative Reflection Inspired Perceive Visible Timeless Garments A Perfect World

Author:Lawren Harris

“It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.”

Source: The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)

“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

“Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow.”

Individual Grows Nature Responsibility Individual Responsibility

Author:Rajneesh

“After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.”

Years Individual Nature White Miracle Asking Selfish

Book:BRING ME A UNICORN

Source: BRING ME A UNICORN

“When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.”

People Ifs World Individual Nature Natural Chance Gone Environment Tree Rocks Destroyed Soil Wilderness Natural World Competent Vertical

Book:The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner

Source: The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner

“Only a few people seem to realize that social harmony and peace with nature, between people, and within the individual only can come about when the material and spiritual realms are reconciled.”

People God Seems Spiritual Spirituality Individual Social Nature Realizing Materials Harmony Realms Social Harmony

Author:Fethullah Gulen

“The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.”

Two Individual Nature Class Tree Produce Individuality Being Yourself Arrangements Assessment Two Trees

Author:Lydia M. Child

“In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or what he stands for us real in our thoughts and deeds, then he is not real or true.”

Ifs Real Dream Individual Nature Environment Machines Deeds Our Thoughts

Book:Notes on life

Source: Notes on life

“Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.”

Science Individual Nature Natural Solitude Ill Aspiration Cradle Grandeur

Book:Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

Source: Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy