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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Paul TillichRead
Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.
Reinhold MessnerRead
Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream
Junko TabeiRead
For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles DickensRead
"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web."_x000D_ _x000D_ "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.
E. B. WhiteRead
My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.
Paul DaviesRead
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
Thomas HardyRead
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.
R. Buckminster FullerRead
The majority of modern medicines originate in nature. Although some mushrooms have been used in therapies for thousands of years, we are still discovering new potential medicines hidden within them.
Paul StametsRead
Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.
E. E. CummingsRead
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
SophoclesRead
The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
Lady Bird JohnsonRead
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
E. E. CummingsRead
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
George EliotRead
That part of Christ's nature which was profoundly human helps us to understand him and love him and to pursue his Passion as though it were our own. If he had not within him this warm human element, he would never be able to touch our hearts with such assurance and tenderness; he would not be able to become a model for our lives.
Nikos KazantzakisRead
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
Walt WhitmanRead
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
R. Buckminster FullerRead
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
Antoni GaudiRead
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Maria MitchellRead
We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution.
August WeismannRead
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
Neil Degrasse TysonRead

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