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Marcel Proust Novelist
Nature

"If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink."

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Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
Nature

"All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Nature

"One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees."

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George Santayana Philosopher, Poet
Nature

"A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Nature

"For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Nature

"The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."

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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
Nature

"Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms."

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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
Nature

"Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law."

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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
Nature

"What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?"

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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
Nature

"The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them."

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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
Nature

"Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body."

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