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The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
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Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.
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Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.
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It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
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To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
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Born:
November 25, 1893
Died:
May 22, 1970
(aged 76)
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