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“All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.”

God Running Water Nature Clouds Woods Leap Swim Proclaiming

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.”

Hands Running Faces Hate Courses Nature Built Sacred Running Away Sanctity Runaway

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms.”

Reality Running America Science Politics Energy Nature Rooms Ideology Emergencies Fever Emergency Room

Author:Ed Markey

“As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.”

Men Running Nature Essentials Garden Weed Gardening Gardener Herbs

Author:Francis Bacon

“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”

Men Kind Running Law Nature Justice Ought Revenge Weed Marijuana Best Revenge Exacting Revenge

Author:Francis Bacon

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.”

World Running Earth Joy Night Nature Break Flower Wave Rhythm Dust Grass Streams Veins Blades Blades Of Grass Leaves And Flowers

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.”

Littles Long Doe Running Nature Cost Benefits Debt Analysis Experts Long Runs Accounting Cost Benefit Analysis

Book:Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Source: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

“The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought”

Ifs Men Should Trying Running Stars Nature Born Sun Imagine Heard Lucky Moon My Friends Should Have Fishes Glad Each Day Old Man Running Away

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.”

Littles Stills Play Running Nature Streets Wind Little Things Enthusiastic Skip Inner Child Child At Heart

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.”

“After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.”

“All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.”

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

Men Real Running Nature Sadness He Man Sorrow Delight Spite One With Nature The Wild Nature

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.”

Running Can Do Nature Environment Environmental Strikes Save Mother Earth Strike Back

Author:Rene Dubos

“I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

“In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem.”