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“The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.”

Ifs Way Strong Causes Nature Movement Reflection Rivers Currents One Way Streams Uneasy

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.”

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”

“An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.”

World Helping School Form Parent Nature Realizing Levels Environment Movement Students Environmental Supposed To Be Polite Portal Incarceration

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.”

World Whole Age Nature Change Movement Flow All Things Constant Whole World Permanent Things Change Changing Nature

Author:Ovid

“The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.”

Made Faces Force Nature Tree Movement Habit Destruction Permanent Features Gestures Accustomed Arrested Metamorphosis Nymphs Pompeii

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

“Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general movement. The rivers and the rocks, the seas and the continents, have been changed in all their parts; but the laws which direct those changes, and the rules to which they are subject, have remained invariably the same.”

Has Beens Law Science Nature Economy Sea Subjects Rocks Movement Changed Revolution Rivers Direct Continents Uniforms Globes

Book:Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth

Source: Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth

“Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.”

Has Beens Action Science Energy Nature Natural Greater Movement Periods Torn Framework

Author:Adam Sedgwick