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“Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.”

Humans Nature Labor Sunshine

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.”

Nature Mankind Industry Labor Rewards Proportion Industrious

Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.”

Nature Leadership Courage Advantage Labor Fruit Inheritance Fruit Of Labor

Author:Voltaire

“The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.”

Men Earth Given Nature Common Labor Educational Environmental Stewardship

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.”

Men Life May Doe Success Choices Nature Activity Labor Likes Defined Leisure Leaving Me Compulsion Starvation Compulsory Latitude Leisure Activities

Author:George Bernard Shaw