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Browsing Quotes With Tag: nature (3)

  • Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

    Speaker: Lao Tzu
    Source: http://zenhabits.net/2010/01/no-hurry/
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 28 Jan 2010 at 7:03 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: nature, simplicity

  • There’s so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature… yes, that’s it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are – vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth – and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.

    Speaker: Muriel Barbery
    Source: the Elegance of the Hedgehog
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:50 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: beauty, existentialism, nature

  • As the cover is made to fit the shield and the scabbard to fit the sword, so everything in nature, except the universe itself, has been created to serve something other than itself.

    Speaker: Cicero
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:37 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: nature, western-world