Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ~Charles Churchill
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ~Richard Owen
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. ~Howard Staunton
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature. ~Graham Cooke
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~German Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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