Joel Dorman Steele quotes

“In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.”
-- Joel Dorman Steele

Source : Joel Dorman Steele (1872). “Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry”, p.223

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“Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.”

Source : Address to the Geological Society, delivered on the Evening of the 18th of February 1831, Proceedings of the Geological Society, 1, 307, 1834.

“Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.”

“Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.”

“I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.”

“We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.”

“Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.”

“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.”

“What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?”