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Nature is cruel but we don't have to be
-Temple Grandin
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Nature Is Cruel But We Don't Have

Temple Grandin
Nature is cruel but we don't have to be
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We are nature. we are nature seeing nature. we are nature with a concept of nature. nature weeping. nature speaking of nature to nature.
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This world,' she said. 'do you really like it?' what a question! farid never asked himself such things. he was glad to be with dustfinger again and didn't mind where that was. it's a cruel world, don't you think?' meggie went on. 'mo often told me i forget how cruel it is too easily.' with his burned fingers, farid stroke her fair hair. it shone even in the dark. 'they're all cruel,' he said. 'the world i come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same.
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The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadists are an extremely small proportion of the population overall), but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable-or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around.
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You said 'god is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on tahiti might say 'snow is cold'. you knew, but you didn't understand." he stepped close to david and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "do you know how cruel your god can be, david. how fantastically cruel?
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Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. man lives from nature -- i.e., nature is his body -- and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. to say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.
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We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. nature is very kind with us. and if you want to enjoy the gifts of nature and the promises of nature, we have to defer to nature and its needs, its rules, its norms.
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