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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
American
Politician
Born:
Jan 17
,
1706
Died:
Apr 17
,
1790
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Nature
You
Better
Will
Everything
Look
Understand
Then
Deep
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Paulo Coelho
Life
Art
Nature
Me
Patience
Respect
Weather
My Life
Seen
Controlling
Further
Fury
Had
Look
Most
Learn
Exercise
Understand
Am
Caught
Surprise
Very
Quickly
Storms
Capable
Many
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Patience
Secret
Adopt
Pace
Her
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa
God
Nature
Silence
Noise
Moon
Grass
Stars
Trees
Sun
Find
See
Able
Restlessness
Touch
He
Souls
How
Friend
Move
Cannot
Found
Grows
Flowers
Need
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
Wisdom
Nature
Walk
Every
Seeks
More
He
Than
Far
Receives
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Best
Nature
Rain
Thing
Raining
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nature
Winter
Wind
Spring
Behind
Far
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
Nature
World
Kin
Touch
Makes
Whole
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
Life
Nature
Experience
Men
Long
Nothing
Danger
Run
Daring
Security
Superstition
Outright
Long Run
Adventure
Mostly
Safer
Does
Nor
Exist
Than
Children
Either
Avoiding
Whole
Exposure
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Wears
Spirit
Colors
Always
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