"It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle."
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"A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
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"If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once."
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"There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art."
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"Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie."
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"For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result."
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"How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds."
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"The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity."
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"The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it."
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"cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall."
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"If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance."
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"Nature hates monopolies and exceptions."
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"Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection."
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"How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely."
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"The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality."
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"The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary."
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"At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish."
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"Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion."
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"Your descendants shall gather your fruits."
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"Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet."
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