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"Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry."
"The Sun is its father, the Moon its mother, the wind has carried it in its belly, the earth is its nurse."
"They dwell altogether in the face, their endeavors are meer titillations, & their acquaintance with Nature is not at the heart."
"If you want to shine like a star, first you have to burn like a star."
"Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten."
"We know that trees help generate rainfall, but we want farmers to see various benefits from them, including providing poles for planting beans, fertilizing the soil, and more."
"Through 1,841 three nursery entrepreneurs, we distributed 20 million agroforestry trees to more than 766,000 farmers to continue addressing climate change-related challenges."
"...and Abel was running. Against the winter sky and the long, light valley of the landscape at dawn, he seemed almost to be standing still, very little and alone."
"There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting."
"And hold up to the sun my little taper."
"Men may move mountains, but ideas move men."
"The best art, and the only art which will ever lead to great results, must have for its basis the interpretation of beauty in nature."
"Welles is at once as abnormal and as natural as Niagara Falls."
"If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we f1nd new elements of our nature called into activi…"
"Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man…"
"Some believe that those aeroplanes on September 11 came out of a clear blue sky. I believe they came out of a swamp of hatred created by us."
"There is surely a Physiognomy, which those experienced and Master Mendicants observe… For there are mystically in our faces certain Characters that carry in them the motto of our Souls, wherein he tha…"
"The greatest painter of the T’ang epoch, and, by common consent, of all the Far East, rose above distinctions of school, and belonged rather to the Buddhist tradition of Chinese art. Wu Tao-tze deserv…"
"Of Anger the Dhamnapada says, "He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call, a real driver, other people are but holding the reins."
"We saw Earth’s breath."
John Muir
Vitruvius
Marcus Aurelius
Leonardo da Vinci
Charles Lyell
Carl Sagan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Camille Paglia
Marshall McLuhan
Dejan Stojanovic
Aristotle
Thomas Carlyle