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“Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.”
“In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it...”
“After the sorts of winters we have had to endure recently, the spring does seem miraculous, because it has become gradually harder and harder to believe that it is actually going to happen. Every F...”
“He tousled Baby's hair, then looked up at Tiger Lily. "The woods have rules." He put Baby down gingerly in his trough with his bottle. "But the rules are ugly.""It's nature," she said, thoughtfully...”
“There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure,...”
“You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tr...”
“Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.”
“Do you believe in God, Martin?'And he answered, 'Yes, because of His trees. Don't you?''I'm not sure...''Oh, my poor, blind Stephen! Look again, go on looking until you do believe.”
“Trees were made of vibrant green leaves sitting on the shoulders of shy green leaves too embarrassed to show themselves.”
“The universe is not hostile nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.”
“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.”
“Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.”
“Men argue nature acts.”
“Nature is usually wrong.”
“Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee.”
“Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright.”
“Gie me a spark o' nature's fire that's a' the learning I desire.”
“Light may be shed on man and his origins.”
“I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.”
“The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the "Survival of the fittest" is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.”
