"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience"
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We want to achieve things in no time. We think that working on something for a month is enough or too much. We want to feel ...
I was recently reading again a book by Ralph Waldo Emerson and his words "Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience" resonated so much with me and with what I think we still have to achieve today as a society. He wrote Nature in 1836. The problem he lays out and attempts to solve in his essay is: "humans do not fully accept nature's beauty. People are distracted by the demands of the world, whereas nature gives but humans fail to reciprocate". It seems we haven't made much progress since 1836, making things rather worse. We have been taking so much from nature based on two uncanny…
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