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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”

Humans Reason Action Desire Passion Causes Nature Chance Habit Philosophical Excellence Seven Compulsion Human Actions Daily Habits Moral Excellence Passion And Desire Passion For Excellence

Author:Aristotle

“Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.”

Mind Heart Passion Nature Air Influence Exercise Sorrow Mere Depth Calm Storm Contact Communion Comforting Soothing Strengthening Communion With Nature

Author:Alexander von Humboldt

“The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own.”

Wells States Passion Nature Greed Burning Mystical Furious Exaltation Nature Love Lodges

Author:Mary Webb

“I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.”

“Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life.”

Thinking Men Feels Humans Heart Book Passion Felt Nature Natural My Own Objects Gentle Human Life Agency Humankind Careless Power Of Nature

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”

Long I Can Feelings Passion Nature Endure My Passion

Book:The Sayings of Lord Byron

Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron

“The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its exertion, but in that it has a reason and a law. For men of the first class, nature is a picture; for men of the second class, it is an opportunity; for men of the third class, it is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. These are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn.”

“Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none, Nor seen unveil'd by anyone), When Harvey's violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree: There Daphne's Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp'd not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!”

Stills Science Passion Enjoy Nature Tree Lovers Roots Violent Virgins Apollo Sanctuary Bark Harvey

Book:The Works of Abraham Cowley: With a Preface, Biographical and Critical by Samuel Johnson

Source: The Works of Abraham Cowley: With a Preface, Biographical and Critical by Samuel Johnson