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“As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up into the mountains or desert and check into a little cabin. Go by yourself.”

Littles Persons Important Nature Powerful Buddhism Periods Solitude Mountain Checks Desert Weekend Cabins Powerful Person

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.”

Needs May Wish Nature Periods Understood Essence Yield Incubation

Author:Paul Gauguin

“A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.”

World Nature Effort Secret Periods Breaths Silent Wicked Wilderness Retreat Recreation Escaping Recourse Wicked World

Author:Benton MacKaye

“You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.”

Knows Hands Order Nature Rocks Periods Shapes Safe Eternity Leaving Casts Boards Wheels Sand Why Not Pilots Almighty Nails Harbors Anchors Voyages Celestial Port Steers Reefs

Author:Peter Marshall

“What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.”

Way Nature Periods Garden Disappear

Author:John Gould

“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”

Men Life Years Children Life Is Nature Youth Periods Casts Woods Wilderness Perpetual Snakes Slough

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.”

Has Beens Wisdom Spiritual Law Nature History Darkness Balance Periods Words Of Wisdom Enlightenment Opposition Pushing Laws Of Nature Light And Dark Laws Of Life

Author:Dan Brown

“What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of years and through an endless sequence of groping, of trials and errors, has produced such a magnificent array of living forms, forms capable of seasonal self-renewal over vast periods of time.”

Years Self Earth Form Order Nature Animal Periods Capable Happenings Errors Billions Trials Endless Upset Magnificent Sequence Renewal Magnitude Trial And Error

Author:Thomas Berry

“The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some 100 years beginning only in the 18th century, of the idea of change itself, of change over periods of time: in a word, of evolution.”

Men World Years Ideas Science Nature Views Century Evolution Periods Introduction 18th Century

Author:Ernst Mayr

“The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction; he has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws now existing, and that it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive.”

Source: James Hutton & Joseph Black: Biographies

“There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.”

Firsts Fear Nature Sweet Periods Rain Smell Curious Breeze Wind And Rain Rainy Weather Inspirational Rain Happy Rain Rains Beauty Smell Of Rain

Book:The Names

Source: The Names

“What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.”

Long Doe Science Courses Nature Environment Periods Plant Species

Author:Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they present:- so various yet so uniform-so vast yet so connected. In thus tracing back to the most remote periods in the physical history of our continents, one system of operations, as the means by which many complex formations have been successively produced, the mind becomes impressed with the singleness of nature's laws; and in this respect, at least, geology is hardly inferior in simplicity to astronomy.”

Source: The silurian system, founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford etc

“Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.”

Source: A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick

“On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks.”

“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