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“The wind howls, but the mountain remains still.”
Susan Cain
Metaphor
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Resilience
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Nature
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Inner Strength
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Stillness
2.
“To ask whether it’s nature or nurture, says Kagan, is like asking whether a blizzard is caused by temperature or humidity. It’s the intricate interaction between the two that makes us who we are.”
Susan Cain
Nature
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Nurture
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Personality
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Interaction
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Development
3.
“There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.”
Neil Gaiman
Dogs
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Evolution
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Nature
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Instinct
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Simplicity
4.
“What do stars do? They shine.”
Neil Gaiman
Stars
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Light
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Inspiration
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Nature
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Simplicity
5.
“The only water in the forest is the River.”
Neil Gaiman
Water
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Forest
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Survival
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Metaphor
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Nature
6.
“Humanity is evil – civilization is the scum that forms on the surface, but beneath, humanity consists of brutes and animals.”
Neil Gaiman
Humanity
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Civilization
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Nature
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Morality
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Philosophy
7.
“Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.”
Neil Gaiman
Trees
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Nature
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Mythology
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Mystery
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Imagination
8.
“The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.”
Neil Gaiman
Perception
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Wonder
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Nature
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Beauty
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Simplicity
9.
“My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.”
Douglas Adams
Animals
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Humor
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Ineptitude
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Information
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Nature
10.
“But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving.”
Douglas Adams
Nature
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Resilience
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Environment
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Warning
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Uncertainty
11.
“A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.”
Douglas Adams
Personification
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Nature
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Indecision
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Description
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Repetition
12.
“The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.”
Douglas Adams
Responsibility
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Perspective
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Nature
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Metaphor
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Collective Impact
13.
“A bit like a preying mantis that doesn't prey – a non-preying mantis if you like.”
Douglas Adams
Wordplay
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Humor
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Nature
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Contradiction
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Language
14.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Douglas Adams
Beauty
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Belief
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Skepticism
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Nature
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Rationality
15.
“Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Death
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Nature
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Blessing
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Poetic
,
Melancholy
16.
“Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small gray clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Description
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Atmosphere
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Imagination
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Nature
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Observation
17.
“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty
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Transience
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Nature
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Life Cycle
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Metaphor
18.
“As the still ocean paths before the shark in starred and glittering waterways, beauty-high, the moon-swathed trees divided, pair on pair, while flapping nightbirds cried across the air.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nature
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Imagery
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Beauty
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Night
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Poetic Description
19.
“Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Humor
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Nature
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Gender
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Fantasy
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Social Commentary
20.
“The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nature
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Imagery
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Description
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Sunset
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Metaphor
21.
“This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Storytelling
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Imagery
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Color
,
Nature
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Perspective
22.
“The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens – finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Description
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Nature
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Imagery
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Wealth
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Extravagance
23.
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Renewal
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Seasons
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Hope
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Change
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Nature
24.
“The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sensuality
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Nature
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Immersion
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Pleasure
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Description
25.
“The sea, he thought, had treasured its memories deeper than the faithless land.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Memory
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Nature
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Fidelity
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Metaphor
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Reflection
26.
“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Change
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Perspective
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Nature
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Metaphor
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Contrast
27.
“Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nature
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Progress
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Human Ambition
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Wonder
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American Dream
28.
“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”
Michel de Montaigne
Nature
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Wisdom
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Acceptance
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Human Intervention
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Philosophy
29.
“If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.”
Michel de Montaigne
Death
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Nature
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Wisdom
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Human Condition
,
Acceptance
30.
“Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.”
Michel de Montaigne
Nature
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Universality
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Providence
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Existence
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Philosophy
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