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John Boyd Orr

"In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods."

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Amber Hurdle

"In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles."

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Amber Hurdle

"Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done-peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color."

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Amber Hurdle

"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."

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Amber Hurdle

"Custom is second nature."

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Amber Hurdle

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

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Amber Hurdle

"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."

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Amber Hurdle

"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."

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Amber Hurdle

"There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!"

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Amber Hurdle

"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"

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John Boyd Orr
"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."

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John Boyd Orr
"In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods."

Nature

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John Boyd Orr
"Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge."

Society

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John Boyd Orr
"Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago."

Time

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John Boyd Orr
"During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent."

War

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John Boyd Orr
"It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction."

War

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John Boyd Orr
"We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible."

Nation

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John Boyd Orr
"There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty."

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John Boyd Orr
"As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World."

War

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John Boyd Orr
"Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat."

Power

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