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We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.


Helmut Jahn

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EDGAR FRIEDENBAR What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
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ED O'NEILL Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot
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MARIE HELVIN Home life, as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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ALBERT CAMUS Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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THAKSIN SHINAWATRA Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit...
MARK FRAUENFELDER My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
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ANDREA FERRO And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.
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WALTER RUSSELL MEAD Children are our most valuable natural resource.
HERBERT HOOVER Children are our most valuable natural resource
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MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather t...
OLIVER CROMWELL I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather t...
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DAVID CRYSTAL The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.
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RYAN CZARNECKI When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psych...
STANISLAV GROF There is no better way to know us
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.
TED HUGHES Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
JOHN HEYWOOD We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
GEORGE WALD I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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JACK GILBERT I'm really into natural and organic products.
CHANEL IMAN You can take organic materials ? leather, steel, wood and fabrics ? and mix them in the right way.
AMANDA PAYS People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a me...
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MICHAEL LEWIS In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIAN If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest an...
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PAT MASTELOTTO Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.
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PHIL ROBERTSON If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
GEORGE EARLE BUCKLE If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
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FEIST When you say metal scene in India is far behind. Does that mean the bands are ages behind too?
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JOCHEN ZEITZ Somestimes NATURAL BEAUTY is BETTER than the EDITED ONES!!!
VIPIN ONGALATHE Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters o...
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ANNA QUINDLEN Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's clean...
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CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN A property that is pet-friendly is usually on the ground floor, not on a busy street, and perhaps wi...
AMANDA STURGES I have this weird allergy where metal can't touch my skin.
JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood i...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.
GLENN DANZIG Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just ne...
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