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“All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.”

Source: Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings

“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

“The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.”

Source: Silent Spring

“How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.”

Beautiful Form Nature Building Materials Creating Destroying Pulling Chasing Particles

Book:My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.”

Women Nature Memories Materials Memorable Magnet Preconceptions

Book:The life I really lived: a novel

Source: The life I really lived: a novel

“Nature's kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size, even if you have flaws in the material, it doesn't affect the strength.”

Ifs Years Kind Grows Nature Millions Strength Materials Years Ago Size Critical Clever Flaws Fiber

Author:Asa Baber

“I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.”

Needs Giving Believe Humans Earth Fall I Believe Grows Nature Materials Prepared Creator Oil Breathing Farms Spells Be Prepared Fall Back Human Needs

Author:George Washington Carver

“We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect of changing our basic ways of living. This change will either be made on our own initiative in a planned and rational way, or forced on us with chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature.”

Way Made Faces Law Suffering Energy Nature Animal Materials Resources Infinite Chaos Rational Initiative Laws Of Nature Raw Materials Inexorable

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.”

Ifs Heaven Nature Materials Flower Seasons Simplicity Income Dividends

Book:Letters of James Russell Lowell

Source: Letters of James Russell Lowell

“A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.”

Men Reason Certain Universe Nature Materials Productions Envy Temptation Discovering Sovereign Malevolence

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“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

“Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.”

Men World God Law Science Nature Materials Relation Intelligent Superiors Beast Deities Material World

Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.”

Should Long Has Beens Made Science Time Nature Brain Materials Return Truth Is Accounts Obvious Observation Fancy Obvious Things Soundness Plainness

Book:Extracts from Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon

Source: Extracts from Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon

“Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth.”

World Firsts Ideas Soul Body Truth Together Lasts Spiritual Science Energy Force Nature Doubt Materials Transformation Analysis Complementary Focal Point Spiritual Energy

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.”

Source: The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

“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

“We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.”

Whole Science Purpose Fighting Nature Democracy Materials Performances Architecture Organic Architecture

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright