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Related Topic(s): Communion; Nature
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It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
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Related Topic(s): Buddhism; Connection; Contemplation; Ecology Environment; Eloquence; Enlightenment; Insight; Nature; Perception; Poetry; Religion; Spirit; Tranquility; Universe
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The temple bell stops.
But the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers.
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Matsuo Basho
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Related Topic(s): Breathing; Cycles; Foresight; Heart; Human Nature; Insight; Nature; Pleasure; Restlessness; Sight
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The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; (1)
So might ...
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| William Wordsworth |
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
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Related Topic(s): Mother Earth; Nature
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Mother Nature always bats last!
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| Jerry Cunningham |
Jerry Cunningham, is the owner and operator of an organic farm, Coyote Creek Farm, in Elgin, Texas. He produces pastured organic eggs and grass-fed beef.
He also owns and operates Coyote Creek Organic Feed Mill. The only organic feed mill in Texas. |
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Related Topic(s): Grief; Happiness; Healing; Humanity; Knowledge; Life; Nature; Real Health Care; SELF KNOWLEDGE; Waste; Will
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The foundation of content must spring from the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] - 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and political conservative, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.
Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, and attended Pembroke College, Oxford for a year, before his lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as a teacher he moved to London, where he began to write essays for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage, the poems London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, and the play Irene. |
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Related Topic(s): Ecology; Life; Nature
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
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Ghandi
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, ; 2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha"�resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total nonviolence"�which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: महातà¥à¤®à¤¾ mahÄtmÄ or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore), and in India also as Bapu (Gujarati: બાપà«, bÄpu or "Father"). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.
Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience while an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, during the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he organized protests by peasants, farmers, and urban labourers concerning excessive land-tax and discrimination. After assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's rights, build religious and ethnic amity, end untouchability, and increase economic self-reliance. Above all, he aimed to achieve Swaraj or the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led his followers in the Non-cooperation movement that protested the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (240 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930. Later he campaigned against the British to Quit India. Gandhi spent a number of years in jail in both South Africa and India. |
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Related Topic(s): Laws; Nature; Service
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Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...
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William Shakespeare
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He was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. |
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Related Topic(s): Nature; Research
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A secret of NATURE, once revealed, permanently enriches humanity as a whole.
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Related Topic(s): Nature; Religion; Religion Faith; Spirit
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only the cricket's song
penetrates
stones of ruined temple
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Matsuo Basho
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Related Topic(s): Nature; Trees
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
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| John Muir |
John Muir (21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of U.S. wilderness. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, have been read by millions and are still popular today. His direct activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. His writings and philosophy strongly influenced the formation of the modern environmental movement.(wikipedia) |
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Related Topic(s): Nature; Sensory; Wonder
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Even the least religious men must have felt with Walt Whitman, when loafing on the grass on some transparent summer morning, that, "swiftly arose and spread round him the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth." At such moments of energetic living we feel as if there were something diseased and contemptible, yea vile, in theoretic grubbing and brooding. In the eye of healthy sense the philosopher is at best a learned fool.
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Related Topic(s): Beautiful; Dangerous; Extreme; Nature; Weather
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Nature is most dangerous and most beautiful at its extremes.
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| Rob Kall |
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Related Topic(s): Fashion Makeover; Human Nature; Intellect; Intellect; Intellectual; Intellectualism; Intellectuals; Intelligence; More Intelligent Species; Nature; Nature; Networks; WORK
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Truly a work of Art is one that tells us,
that Nature cannot make what man can make.
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| Louis Kahn |
Date of Birth: 1901
Date of Death: 1974
Country: United States
Bio: Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky) (March 5 [O.S. February 20] 1901 - March 17, 1974) was an American architect, based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. While continuing his private practice, he served as a design critic and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957.
From 1957 until his death, he was a professor of architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Kahn created a style that was monumental and monolithic; his heavy buildings do not hide their weight, their materials, or the way they are assembled. Louis Kahn's works are considered as monumental beyond modernism. Famous for his meticulously built works, his provocative proposals that remained unbuilt, and his teaching, Kahn was one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. He was awarded the AIA Gold Medal and the RIBA Gold Medal. At the time of his death he was considered by some as "America's foremost living architect." |
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Related Topic(s): Metaphors; Nature; Words
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Nature's bouquet of metaphors can teach us everything.
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| Rob Kall |
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Related Topic(s): Bottom-up; Connection; Earth; First Nation; Indigenous Cultures; Race Native American- First Nation; Unity; Web; Wholeness
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[T]he earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
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| Chief Seattle |
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leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish Native American tribes in what is now the U.S. state of Washington. A prominent figure among his people, he pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, forming a personal relationship with David Swinson "Doc" Maynard. Seattle, Washington was named after him. |
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Related Topic(s): Earth; Heaven; Hell; State Law
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What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven.
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| Friedrich Höderlin |
Friedrich Höderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism |
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Related Topic(s): Children; Connection; Earth; Ecology Environment; Equality; Ethics; Freedom; The People
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What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts soon happens to man. All things are connected.
"You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children...
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| Chief Seattle |
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leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish Native American tribes in what is now the U.S. state of Washington. A prominent figure among his people, he pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, forming a personal relationship with David Swinson "Doc" Maynard. Seattle, Washington was named after him. |
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Related Topic(s): Change; Change; Earth; Harmony; Human Nature; Humanity; Mother Earth
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There is a kind of globe you can buy for hour home or office. With the light inside turned off you see the crazy-quilt pattern of the world's political areas. Turn the light on and there appears a glowing map of the natural Earth -- the bottoms of oceans and seas, the tops of mountains and plains, deserts and jungles, glaciers and volcanoes.
This map shows no city limits, no county or state lines, no national borders. The only things that seems ...
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Related Topic(s): Earth; Indigenous Cultures; Mother Earth; Relationship; Science; Wisdom
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5,000 years of indigenous wisdom --it's not scientific, but it is accurate, and it helps us to understand our relationship to ourselves, to life to the earth, to the past, and the way we work together. Science is only about 300 years old ... the scientific perspective that you and I are both steeped in.
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| Gregg Braden |
Gregg Braden (born June 28, 1954)[citation needed] is an American author of New Age literature, who wrote about the 2012 phenomenon and became noted for his claim that the magnetic polarity of the earth was about to reverse. Braden argued that the change in the earth's magnetic field might have effects on human DNA He has also argued that human emotions affect DNA and that collective prayer may have healing physical effects. He has published many books through the Hay House publishing house. In 2009, his book "Fractal Time" was on the bestseller list of the New York Times.
Publications:
Walking Between the Worlds: The Science of Compassion (May 1, 1997)
The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy (Jul 10, 2001)
The Gregg Braden Audio Collection: Awakening the Power of Spiritual Technology (Mar 1, 2004)
The Divine Name by Gregg Braden and Jonathan Goldman (Nov 1, 2004)
The Divine Name: Sounds of the God Code by Gregg Braden and Jonathan Goldman - Audio CD with booklet (Nov 1, 2004)
The God Code: The Secret of our Past, the Promise of our Future (Jan 1, 2005)
Unleashing the Power of the God Code (May 1, 2005)
Speaking the Lost Language of God (Aug 1, 2005)
An Ancient Magical Prayer (Audio CD) (Sept 1, 2005)
Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessings, Wisdom, and Hurt (Jan 1, 2006)
The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Jan 1, 2008)
The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (4 CD Set) (Apr 1, 2008)
The Science of Miracles - The Quantum Language of Healing, Peace, Feeling, and Belief (March 1, 2009)
The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Apr 1, 2009)
The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies, and Possibilities (Jan 1, 2009)
Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age (Feb 1, 2010)
How Science is Holding Humanity Back - Gregg Braden Identifies Five False Assumptions and Explains Why We Have to Change Them Now (March 22, 2012) (with Ric Thompson)
Entanglement: A Tales of Everyday Magic Novel by Gregg Braden and Lynn Lauber (Jun 19, 2012)
Deep Truth: Igniting the Memory of Our Origin, History, Destiny, and Fate (8-CD set) (Oct 15, 2012)
The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes (Jan 28, 2014)
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