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I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

—Clara Schumann

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True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

—Bryant H. McGill

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The wonder of the world, the beauty, and the power, the shapes of things, their colors, lights and shades, these I saw. Look ye also while life lasts.

—Gravestone inscription, Cumberland, England

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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

—William Wordsworth

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Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

—Elizabeth Janeway

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We all have to excel at one of two things. Either we become good at planting in the spring, or we learn how to beg in the fall.

—Jim Rohn

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Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas; take your next trip in kilometers.

—George Carlin

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For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed "progress.". . . The longing for growth is not wrong. The nub of the problem is how to flip over, as in jujitsu, the magnificent growth energy of modern civilization into a nonacquisitive search for deeper knowledge of self and nature.

—Gary Snyder

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If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

—Annie Dillard

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Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

—Adolph Monod

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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

—Stephen Jay Gould

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In the long term, the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it's unenvironmental, it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature.

—Mollie Beattie

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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

—Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world.

—Susan Sontag

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