"Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part."
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"By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause."
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"I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature."
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"The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage."
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"The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery."
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"On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!"
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"Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation."
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"Of what I call God, And fools call Nature."
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"I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow."
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"There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man."
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"We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction."
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"The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves)."
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"Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic."
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"Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky."
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"Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal."
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"He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature."
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"The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature."
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"Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience."
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"No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms."
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"Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair."
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