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“Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.”
“Mans collective mastery of nature even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well- being when it c...”
“It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.”
“To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing.”
“I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
“Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.”
“My body was a buzzing antenna into which radio waves flooded from the entire cosmos. I was the living switchboard of the universe. My skull was a magnetized globe.”
“We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men.”
“Gray clouds were charging across tissues of white, which stretched and shredded and tore slowly, until through their final layers there gleamed a hint of the disappearing blue. Summer was retreatin...”
“Nana always said the rain was Nature's way of adding sparkle to the outdoors.”
“This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly”
“Rain drops are not synchronized yet they create that sound worth listening to.”
“When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!”
“PHOTOGRAPHY is the best way, where you can SAVE your sweet PAST.”
“Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty”
“The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of founta...”
“One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too la...”
“What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. ”
“The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.”
“Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.”