#nature

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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.


Herbert Spencer


#existing #form #government #highest #highest form

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.


Francis Bacon


#kind #law #man #more #nature

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.


Francis Bacon


#commanded #must #obeyed

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.


Paul Gillmor


#affordable #affordable health care #always #american #american economy

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.


Michel de Montaigne


#nature #sustainable-development #art

This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.


Ursula K. Le Guin


#love #nature #death

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.


Adolf Hitler


#i #i do #just #man #nature

Freed hands both rising for the pommel now, so natural, so smooth, it was like Kiriath machinery, as if he were machinery, a cunningly crafted clockwork Kiriath mannequin, built to complement the steel. He felt the accustomed kiss of the grip on his palms, felt the grin on his face turn into a snarl. Cold chime as the scabbard gave up its embrace. And the Ravensfriend came out.


Richard K. Morgan


#nature

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.


Ambrose Bierce


#explaining #fear #hope #ignorance #nature

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.


Ethan Hawke


#helps #i #i think #larger #lives