Nature
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When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others.
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.
The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature — if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty — but mostly suffering!
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.
The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.
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