Nature Quote by Susan Orlean

“To desire orchids is to have a desire that will never be, can never be, fully requited. A collector who wants one of every orchid species on earth will certainly die before even coming close.” quote by Susan Orlean — Download Open image

““To desire orchids is to have a desire that will never be, can never be, fully requited. A collector who wants one of every orchid species on earth will certainly die before even coming close.””

Susan Orlean

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It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

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Remember that your natural state is joy.

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

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“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth is becoming warmer-it must be our fault! The mountain is destroying us-we have not propitiated the gods! It rains too much, it rains too little-a comfort to think that these things are somehow connected to our…

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“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so delicate that it must be nourished and cared for that it might be fulfilled. Alien to the world, it had to live where it could not be at home; avid for tenderness and quiet, it had…

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