Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleRead
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
Interpretation
Everything in nature serves a purpose and is complete in its own right.
This quote by Aristotle emphasizes the inherent completeness and purposefulness of all natural entities. It suggests that every aspect of nature has been designed with intention and utility, underscoring the idea that nothing exists without a reason and nothing is truly lacking.
In practice
In a discussion about environmental conservation, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of preserving natural ecosystems.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.
Every time I go to Africa, I feel like I hit true north. There is a depth of feeling that I have for the continent, in the richness of the people, the suffering , but also the transcendent joy that is there - it's like nowhere else on the planet.
Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.
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