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"When you're at peace with your life and in a state of tranquility, you actually send out a vibration of energy that impacts all living creatures, including plants, animals and even babies."
"I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee."
"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."
"Nature's old felicities."
"This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity."
"We shall not cease from exploration"
"May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children."
"When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear."
"In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows."
"Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck."
"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."
"The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
"All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair."
"In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold."
"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."
""In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.""
"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
"Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet"
"The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us."
"What is not in nature can never be true."
