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"All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth."
"I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill."
"Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature."
"Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency."
"The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world."
"Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions."
"All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him."
"on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry."
"Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude."
"Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know."
"And nature must obey necessity."
"To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature."
"I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature."
"Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring."
"Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives."
"As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!"
"To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye."
"Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?"
"I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led."
"For nature then to me was all in all."
