Quote by Thor Heyerdahl
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. – Thor Heyerdahl

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In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds. – Thor Heyerdahl

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Experience
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It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. – Thor Heyerdahl

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Happiness
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I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I dont believe it exists. Ive felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. – Thor Heyerdahl

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alone
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome mans insecurity before himself and before nature. – Albert Einstein

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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. – Henry David Thoreau

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Nature

For greed all nature is too little. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Nature

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. – Eric Hoffer

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Nature

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