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Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go,
and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
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-Charles Dickens
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Nature hath no goal though she hath law.
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-John Donne
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Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth
of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.
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-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I am working on a problem, I never
think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I
have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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-R. Buckminster Fuller
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If the ignorance of nature gave birth to
gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
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-Baron d'Holbach
Systeme de la Nature
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It is not the mountain that we conquer,
but ourselves.
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-Edmund Hillary
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In nature there are neither rewards nor
punishments; there are consequences.
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-Robert Green Ingersoll
"Some Reasons Why", 1881
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Nature abhors a moron.
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-Henry Louis Mencken
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Nothing happens in contradiction to nature;
only what we know of it.
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-Dana Scully, a character played by Gillian
Anderson on The X-Files
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Humankind has not woven the web of life. We
are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together. All things connect.
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-Chief Seattle
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It is precisely those things which belong to
"the people" which have been historically despoiled- wild creatures, the
air, and waterways being notable examples. This goes to the heart of why
property rights are socially important in the first place. Property rights
means self-interested monitors. No owned creatures are in danger of
extinction. No owned forests are in danger of being leveled. No one kills
the goose that lays the golden egg when it's his goose.
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-Thomas Sowell
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A black hole is where God divides by zero.
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-Unknown
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Nature is very patient and lets us formulate
whatever laws about her happen to interest us at the moment.
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-Alfred North Whitehead
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