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- Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the…
- Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to…
- Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
- We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
- Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
- We can never have enough of Nature.
- The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any…
- By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening,…
- Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and…
- We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us.…
- The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the…
- I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and…
- Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.
- Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the…
- The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!
- You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
- I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old…
- My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas…
- The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the…
- It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
- We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.
- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river…
- Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.
- The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
- Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect…
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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