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Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
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“Some discussion of the nature and temperament of the fairies is necessary in view of its possible bearing on their origin. J.… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
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He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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That which reminds us of nature and thus stimulates a feeling for the infinite abundance of life is beautiful. Nature is organic,and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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Grandeur and sublimity, not softness, are the features of Estes Park. The glades which begin so softly are soon lost in the… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
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I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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