nurture

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e43560c	The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.	humanity life nature nurture philosophy roots	Milan Kundera
810f6bc	Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a certain kind. It is when he respects and nurtures the wilderness of his soil and his plants that his garden seems to flourish most. Wildness, he has found, resides not only out there, but right here: in his soil, in his plants, even in himself... But wildness is more a quality than a place, and though humans can't manufacture it, they can nourish and husband it... The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.	gardening life nature nurture wild wilderness	Michael Pollan
07efdb7	When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came.	extraordinary genius learning napoleon-bonaparte nurture raphael richard-wagner study talent thomas-edison training william-shakespeare	Mark Twain
6f6ac42	Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.	environment greed nurture philosophical philosophy rulers war	George R.R. Martin
2cec383	Pray for God's grace to nurture on the inside what He calls us to live out on the outside.	christian faithful god grace inside live nurture outside pray	Elizabeth George
057ec33	It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that had you been brought up by Martians, you would have the same attitude toward eating and being eaten as Mike has.	nature nurture truth upbringing	Robert A. Heinlein

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

humanity life nature nurture philosophy roots

Milan Kundera

810f6bc

Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a certain kind. It is when he respects and nurtures the wilderness of his soil and his plants that his garden seems to flourish most. Wildness, he has found, resides not only out there, but right here: in his soil, in his plants, even in himself... But wildness is more a quality than a place, and though humans can't manufacture it, they can nourish and husband it... The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

gardening life nature nurture wild wilderness

Michael Pollan

07efdb7

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came.

extraordinary genius learning napoleon-bonaparte nurture raphael richard-wagner study talent thomas-edison training william-shakespeare

Mark Twain

6f6ac42

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

environment greed nurture philosophical philosophy rulers war

George R.R. Martin

2cec383

Pray for God's grace to nurture on the inside what He calls us to live out on the outside.

christian faithful god grace inside live nurture outside pray

Elizabeth George

057ec33

It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that had you been brought up by Martians, you would have the same attitude toward eating and being eaten as Mike has.

nature nurture truth upbringing

Robert A. Heinlein