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Quotes About Development

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.
~ Alfred Russel Wallace
Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.
~ Norman Doidge
How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.
~ Maria Montessori
My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.
~ Charles Darwin
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes
~ Marcus Terentius Varro
we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.
~ Richard Hell
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
~ Richard Louv
Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.
~ Richard Louv
Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.
~ Krista Tippett
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.
~ Ananda Coomaraswamy
Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.
~ Charles Webster Hawthorne
You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
~ Ralph Steadman
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.
~ Joshua L. Liebman
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
~ Maria Montessori
If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.
~ C. Everett Koop
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
~ Martin Buber
Nature never gives everything at once.
~ Samuel Johnson
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.
~ Napoleon Hill
You have to choose to manifest your leadership nature.
~ Myles Munroe