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Nature Quotes by Joanna Macy
- We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.
- Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do…
- It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us…
- Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we…
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle