Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Interpretation
Nature is a manifestation of the divine that we can directly experience and appreciate.
This quote suggests that the natural world is a direct reflection of the divine presence, indicating that our interactions with nature allow us to encounter and appreciate the beauty and grandeur of God. Through nature, we can recognize a sense of spirituality and connection that transcends conventional religious practices.
In practice
A nature documentary highlighting the beauty of landscapes and wildlife could open with this quote.
Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop
Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset The rim of the sky takes on a tinge Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber When you peel it carefully.
In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and spirit, especially for those who live in the city, where the conditions of life, often feverish, leave little room for silence, reflection and relaxed contact with nature.
The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.
We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.
That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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