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• Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant. . .

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, No Friends

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.11, Heron Dance Press

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• I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.

  Diego Rivera

  Art, Roots, Mexican

  Diego Rivera, with Gladys March (2012). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

  Paul Scott

  Gossip, Population, Servant

  Paul Scott (1998). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown”, p.299, University of Chicago Press

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• A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech, that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible. Don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

  Rex Harrison

  Depressing, Pygmalion, Native Language

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• No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Writing, Native Language, Two

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.347

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• I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

  Virginia Madsen

  Mother, Father, Native American

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from Feb 03, 2017

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• One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Animal, Elephants, Sick

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• Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

  William Hazlitt

  Air, Genius, Exotic

  "The Complete Works of William Hazlitt".

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• The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Native American, Gay

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Humor, Thinking, Lasts

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• [T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Animal, Rights, Europe

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• I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man

  Lena Dunham

  Men, Passionate, Affair

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• No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Cooperation, Individual

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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• It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of 1838-1839. Although we know about the terrible human suffering of our native people and the members of other tribes during the removal, we rarely hear of those black people who also suffered.

  Wilma Mankiller

  People, Black, Suffering

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• It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many native cultures all over the world. It may not be so obvious that these same plants are often incorporated into the coming-of-age ceremonies of these various societies.

  Rick Doblin

  Age, Culture, World

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• Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

  Barack Obama

  Native American, Firsts

  Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 29, 2013.

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• Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

  Jay Leno

  Native American, Dinner, Bunch

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• Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

  Salman Rushdie

  Native American, Giving, Encounters

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• When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Love Is, Giving

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• As Native Americans, we believe the Rainbow is a sign from the Spirit in all things. It is a sign of the union of all people, like one big family. The unity of all humanity, many tribes and peoples, is essential.

  Thomas Banyacya

  Believe, Native American, People

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• Many native cultures believe that the heart is the bridge between Father Sky and Mother Earth. For these traditions, the 'four-chambered heart,' the source for sustaining emotional and spiritual health, is described as being full, open, clear, and strong. These traditions feel that it is important to check the condition of the four-chambered heart daily, asking: 'Am I full-hearted, open-hearted, clear-hearted, and strong-hearted?'

  Angeles Arrien

  Mother, Spiritual, Strong

  Angeles Arrien (1993). “The four-fold way”

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• Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-​pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-​absorption without self-​awareness.

  Leslie Jamison

  Sarcastic, Hurt, Clever

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• Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Feel Better, Thinking, Mind

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.70, Penguin

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• My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-cl ass young people who were native-born, who felt they were entitled to have something for free, because that's what they were used to.

  Gene Simmons

  White, People, Ass

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• While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

  Confucius

  Men, Law, Land

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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