Robert Frost on nature

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book I, 1253a.8

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracián1601–1658

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