“In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.” — John McPhee, The Control of Nature
Tag: nature
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“To me nature created man, and nature is superior.” — Hans Selye, Genius Talk
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“Gardeners love nature until it attacks their gardens.” – Yahooey
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“The theory of quantum electrodynamics describes Nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you can accept Nature as She is—absurd.” — Richard Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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“That which parents should take care of here, is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.” — John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education
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“People tend to romanticize nature, and to connect it to an earlier time, a more innocent time. They don’t give the natural world credit for being a place of great violence, the fight for survival on the part of animals, the unpredictability and destructiveness of a storm, or of the ocean.” — Carl Phillips, “The Art of Poetry No. 103,” The Paris Review (Spring 2019)
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“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.” — Adam Smith, “Of Sympathy,” The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.” — W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook
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“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.” — Gregory Bateson, An Ecology of Mind
Slow Violence
The tree, slowly but surely, showing its strength.
July 3, 2017
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