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.
It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores
When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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