Nature Quotes by Gertrude Stein

12 Nature quotes by Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein’s playful fragments on nature, though brief, capture her experimental spirit. In 12 short pieces she bends language to echo the organic rhythms of the world, offering a quirky entry point for fans of modernist poetry.

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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

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Nature is not natural and that is natural enough.

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There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must…

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The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

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What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about…

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The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway…

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The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does,…

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If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can…

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The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the…

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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still…

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“One must not forget that the earth seen from an airplane is more splendid than the earth seen from an automobile. The…

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