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Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.

— Blaise Pascal

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

— Blaise Pascal

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“This time she wasn't facing racial cleansing that aimed to create physical perfection, size and color to achieve purity. Now it was a cleansing…

— Armando Lucas Correa

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render…

— Paul Cezanne

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

— Ambrose Bierce

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

— Ruth Ozeki

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those…

— Gilbert Parker

Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

— Henry David Thoreau