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“The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man. . .”

Men Should Self Philosophy Nature Teaching Brother Importance Prejudice Contemplation Superstitions Remedy Serenity Strengthening Self-importance

Author:Luther Burbank

“The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).”

Self Nature Nuclear Staying Arsenal True Beauty Nature Beauty Staying Power

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.”

Needs Self Nature Denial Sovereign Self-denial Austerity

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.”

Ifs Men Self Nature Prove Deny Ems Gifted Pearls Delicacy Swine Caskets

Book:Barnaby Rudge ... With a frontispiece drawn by Hablot Knight Browne, etc

Source: Barnaby Rudge ... With a frontispiece drawn by Hablot Knight Browne, etc

“The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.”

Heart Self Matter Body Causes Nature Brain Seeing Objects Pressure Hearing Resistance Human Life Strings Nerves Endeavor Organs Mediation Heart And Brain Membranes

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen.”

Self Understanding Nature Clear Impossible Essentials Intellectual Experience Philosophical Method Self Realization Realization Accomplished Entrances Grasping

Book:The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans

Source: The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans

“I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining.”

Thinking Should Humans Self States Nature Human Beings Existence Support Building Architecture Interfere Ecology Ecological Ecosystems Sustaining Stasis

Author:Ken Yeang

“Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation.”

Thinking Should Mean Self Use Remember Science Understanding Nature Wise Creation Excellence Creator Excellent Faculty Admirable

Book:An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].

Source: An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].

“The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but true spirituality. Of course there can be vain, self-seeking loving, but to go (sometimes literally) out of our way to help animals, to expend effort to secure their protection and to feel with them their suffering and to be moved by it-these are surely signs of spiritual greatness.”

Source: Christianity and the Rights of Animals

“The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.”

Ifs World Self Whole Seems Nature One Thing Adventure Lonely Whole World Snow Sufficient Self Sufficient Snowflake Winter Snow

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.”

Self Literature Voice Interest Nature Self Interest Inner Voice

Book:Selected writings on art and literature

Source: Selected writings on art and literature

“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”

Self Nature Environmental Substitutes Mastery Adequate Stewardship Self Mastery

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.”

Self Life Is Nature Shapes Lawyer Infant Bud Nouns Caravans Irises Dragonflies

Book:Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

Source: Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

“Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.”

Way Mind Stills Self Fall Grows Nature Animal Watches Source Return Thousand Ten Empty Stillness Rise And Fall

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“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

“I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of our national concern for the ecology. This concern must not be so misguided, misdirected, misused that it serves to stop economic growth, to bankrupt companies, to stifle new development, new jobs, new horizons. In fighting new pollution and stemming present pollution, exciting, sometimes costly means and methods exist and others will evolve. But blanket legislative naysaying to expanding power and energy sources is stupid, self-defeating.”

“We wanted a periodical that would help people live richer, fuller, freer, more self-directed lives.”

People Self Helping Wanted Nature

Author:Graham Fellows

“The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence.”

People Way Ideas Self Facts Water Nature Animal Fiction Absolutes Independent Acknowledge Sunlight Bees Indulgence Dew Reciprocal Absolute Freedom

Author:Peter Coyote

“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.”

World Self Country Nature Journey Travel Description Funny Travel Acquaintance

Book:Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

“The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness. To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion, to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.”

“Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal.”

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