Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

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Nature is man's inorganic body - that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature - i.e., nature is his body - and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.

Karl Marx

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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Mark Twain

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I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

Adolf Hitler

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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

Charles Darwin

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The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

Charles Darwin

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