Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Interpretation
Nature is a manifestation of the divine that we can directly experience and appreciate.
This quote suggests that the natural world is a direct reflection of the divine presence, indicating that our interactions with nature allow us to encounter and appreciate the beauty and grandeur of God. Through nature, we can recognize a sense of spirituality and connection that transcends conventional religious practices.
In practice
A nature documentary highlighting the beauty of landscapes and wildlife could open with this quote.
Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are considered more expert, if a little pedantic.
I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.
Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
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