To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all nat... -Alex Campbell

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

Alex Campbell , Politician
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Alex Campbell was a Canadian politician who served as the Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1966 to 1978. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Prince Edward Island and played a key role in advancing the province's economic and social development. Campbell's premiership was marked by initiatives in areas such as education, healthcare, and infrastructure. He is remembered as a dedicated public servant and a leader who worked to improve the lives of the people of Prince Edward Island.

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To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edw...
My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent....
The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any busi...
I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to...
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a powe...
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible int...
I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends ...
My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit gu...
I am glad to go with my wife and baby boy....

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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature....
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping o...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and...
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....