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“Maria didn’t fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers.”
“Winkler's breath plumed up onto his glasses. The entire valley was enveloped in a huge, illuminated stillness. Above him the clouds had pulled away and the sky burned with stars. The meadow smolder...”
“Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.”
“Not knowing the name of the tree,I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.”
“Ripe summer's sweetness drippedin pearls from every treeand into my opened hearta little drop ran down.”
“Water purling between the rocks, weed under the surface like green hair in the wind.”
“A person’s true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.It is totally consistent.”
“I am thinking that people find truth and collect experiences in vain, for they cannot change their fundamental natures. And perhaps the only thing in life one can do is to take the givens of one’s ...”
“As a writer, It’s an elation to see my own words in print, to float them out there for all the world to read and to learn that some of the world actually does read them. Of their own free will! It ...”
“Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technology provides to do more with less, and indiscriminately for everyone. Return to nature as nature pr...”
“There are people, of course, who think it unscientific to take anything seriously; they do not want their intellectual playground disturbed by graver considerations. But the doctor who fails to tak...”
“There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the valleys; sat on the banks of streams.....when, from the mountain-top, she beheld, far off, across...”
“The great minds, which from time to time have existed in this world, were like doors thrown wide to understanding. I don't mean just their brilliance or philosophy or even psychology. I mean that t...”
“Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.”
“Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations.”
“Man’s 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 i...”
“Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.”
“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...”
“After a debauch of thundershower the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.”
“From the intrinsic evidence of His creation the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician .”
