"How many times it thundered before Franklin..." - Quote by Robert Frost
How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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“We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.”
“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
“We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.”