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“Like a gardener I believe that what goes down must come up.”
“Nature with equal mind sees all her sons at play sees man control the wind the wind sweep man away.”
“The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his...”
“There is something haunting in the light of the moon it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul and something of its inconceivable mystery.”
“The universe is not hostile nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.”
“Men argue nature acts.”
“Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee.”
“Gie me a spark o' nature's fire that's a' the learning I desire.”
“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.”
“Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them”
“I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God angels plants... and horseshit.”
“The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.”
“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.”
“Nature thrives on patience man on impatience.”
“The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.”
“Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.”
“The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat in the active and passive.”
“The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the combination is locked up in the safe.”
“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”
