"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

Nature, Time, Future, Man

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"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I'm a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Writing is hard work and bad for the health."

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"All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days."

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"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind."

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"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad."

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"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street."

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"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

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"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

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"A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy."

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"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."

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"Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts."

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