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Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature,
and it has often been said by philosophers,
that nature is the will of God.
And I prefer to say that nature
is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
An architect's most useful tools are
an eraser at the drafting board,
and a wrecking bar at the site.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The present is the ever moving shadow
that divides yesterday from tomorrow.
In that lies hope.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Think simple" as my old master used to say -
meaning reduce the whole of its parts
into the simplest terms,
getting back to first principles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Get the habit of analysis -
analysis will in time enable synthesis
to become your habit of mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Regard it as just as desirable to build
a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything.
It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.
Hill and house should live together
each the happier for the other.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources,
taking the best from every study,
Science of Mind brings together
the highest enlightenment of the ages.
- Ernest Holmes
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly,
mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life
that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
- Thomas Mann
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- John Muir
Every creature is a word of God.
- Meister Eckhart
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