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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…
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I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the…
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Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no…
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It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical…
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The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
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I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of…
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The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one…
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The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill…
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The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except…
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They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard…
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Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature…
— Victor Hugo
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a…
— David Hume
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I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the…
— Henry Walter Bates
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We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And…
— Florence Nightingale
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Nature alone is the master of true genius.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of…
— Kent Nerburn
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To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.
— Paul Cezanne
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A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of…
— Jane Austen
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Nature alone is illimitably rich, and nature alone forms the great artist.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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