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The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when…

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Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to…
Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any…
Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware…
Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold,…
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot…
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes…
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but…
Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and…

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All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth… — George MacDonald
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The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste… — Joseph Wood Krutch
When bow-hunting, you find you get closer to the woodland critters. The flora and the forest floor becomes clearer. You look at… — Fred Bear
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. — Alexander Pope
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing… — Christopher Hitchens
A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a… — Jerry Stahl
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. — Alexander Pope
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of… — Helen Keller
Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite… — Charlotte Bronte
A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky… — Zelda Fitzgerald

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