We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.
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A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party
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Your spirit is like a seed and self-control is soil. Plant your seed in enough soil to keep it safe and nurtured form the dangers of the world but be careful not to bury it so deep that it may never sprout to see the light of life.
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.
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1 Peter 2:2:
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation
(NIV)
Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto [completed] salvation
(AMP)
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
(KJV)
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world
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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
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