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“I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Light Would Be Values Sun Air Taste Summer Spring Bird Garden Sight Plant Fruit Better Off Summer Sun

Book:Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

Source: Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

“As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".”

World Firsts Humans Seems Christian Lasts Certain Values Term Religious Results Moral Century Elements Ideals Sight Stress Tendencies Moral Values Incline

Book:The Divine Milieu

Source: The Divine Milieu

“With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.”

Years Values Ten Hundred Sight Blue Sacred Green Pale Adore Rust Inscriptions

Book:Moral essays

Source: Moral essays

“We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.”

Needs Firsts Ideas Seems Values Sight Mere Obvious Practicals Sections Geometry Mutation Whimsy

Author:Arthur Koestler

“When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of things. We suffer alienation when our spirit is disconnected from our physical awareness.”

Spirit Suffering Values Loses Environment Awareness Buddhism Sight Buddhist Trash Alienation Etiquette Disconnected

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.”

Men Giving Mind Art Law Joy Values Growth Study Influence Higher Art Is Sight Caught Intellect Every Man Senses Observation Hints Scrap Refining

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.”

Helping Values Easy Stuff Loses Results Acting Principles Focus Teaching Sight Help Me Principles And Values

Author:Mark Pellegrino

“May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.”

People Way May Light Eye Values Culture Dark Common Fire Honor Ordinary Sight Heal Endeavor Makers Ritual Weary Chill

Book:A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call

Source: A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call

“I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.”

Thinking Humans Made Self Values Half Moral Rights Progress Century Losing Concern Sight Relation Human Rights Self Respect 20th Century Respecting Others Concern For Others

Author:Alexander McCall Smith