"If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.
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“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.”
“An action is the perfection and publication of thought.”
“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.”
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“The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.”
“Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.”
“The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.”