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“The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary.”

Home Beautiful Policy Objects Creatures Forests Preserves Consideration Wilderness Refuge Prosperous Wild Creatures

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.”

Source: Lectures Upon Shakspeare

“Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it about and, in particular, from the real situation. Man has to be affected with happiness. It is a tonality given to him. Contradiction: if one does take care to give him happiness, it is because he is a free creature--but in order to give it to him, one turns him into an object.”

Ifs Men Giving Persons Doe Real States Care Order Turns Given Process Situation Cutting Objects Particular Creatures Affair Take Care Contradiction Affected

Book:Notebooks for an Ethics

Source: Notebooks for an Ethics

“Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.”

Ifs Thinking World Would Be Events Objects Creatures Being True True Or False

Book:Truth and Predication

Source: Truth and Predication

“It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.”

Eye Faces Failing Objects Creatures Worship Originals Visible Unseen Pursued

Author:Ibn Arabi

“Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.”

Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art

“Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.”

Littles Persons Feelings Attention Knowing Greater Objects Creatures Fellows Deny Invention Superiors Esteem Preference Ceremony Endeavour Uneasy Uneasy Feelings

Author:Charles Lamb

“The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be worthy of the attention of the Creator; how, then, should other living creatures be considered as proper objects for Divine Providence!”

Men Should Littles Attention Objects Divine Creatures Surprise Creator Worthy Prophet Providence Unimportant Living Creatures Divine Providence

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.”

Feels Years Children Body Violence Creation Objects Creatures Increase Fellows Bullying Agony Torment Worms Pins Compunction

Author:Laetitia Pilkington

“God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.”

Ifs God Objects Creatures Proof Gods Will

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi