"Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art."
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"Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point"
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"The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness."
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"A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder."
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"Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse."
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"The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes."
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"Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well."
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"To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature."
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"Nature is thought immersed in matter. . ."
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"Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man."
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"I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines."
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"One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson."
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"All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas."
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"You can't just let nature run wild."
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"In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones, And on the vacant air."
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"Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth."
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"Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it."
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"Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?"
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"Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
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"Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars."
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