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“Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illness. Th...”
“Nature is energy and struggle. It is what exists without any promise. If it can be thought of by man as an arena, a setting, it has to be thought of as one which lends itself as much to evil as to ...”
“Nature is the my best teacher.”
“Nature! I think it my duty to serve its beauty.”
“Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.”
“Snow... blots and softens the top of every object like ice on a plum pudding. Hedges, telegraph wires, cars, postboxes, recycling bins. The world is losing its edges. Look upwards and it seems as i...”
“Raithe enjoyed a good campfire. Something comforting about the dancing light, the smell of smoke, and the way his face and chest were hot but his backside cold. He sensed a profound meaning in this...”
“I wanted solitude, but a treasure like that didn't exist in the city. I only found silence in Central Park, still littered with people of course, but the only place that held moments of calm. I bre...”
“People don't know to make a leaf, but they know how to destroy one.”
“...as young and as ancient as Spring....”
“...and all the stars flowered in the sky.”
“We worship life on Usonia. Nature... The moon, the sun, the stars, the rivers.”
“Nature is the reality, diverging from the nature counts runny from the truth, live on nature, walk under trustworthness”
“To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people”
“After Sade, violence, life and death, desire, and sexuality will extend, below the level of representation, an immense expanse of darkness, which we are now attempting to recover...in our discourse...”
“Toulouse then felt a cool touch on his right hand as something wound around his wrist. It was the Lucefate snake, slowly coiling around him, winding tightly, but not enough to leave more than a sli...”
“The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.”
“Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth...”
“For who was in thrall to whom, really? And could it ever be known? Each agent working in collusion and antagonism - like the cold and the sun alike creating a deadly spear of ice... Who is in thral...”
“the resurgence of the elder gods breaks down the wall of separation between religion and science that has partitioned Western thought since the Enlightenment. The rise of science has taught us thin...”
