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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Nature

"As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation. Standing on the bare ground with my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into the infinite space, I become happy in my universal relations. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign & accidental. I am the heir of uncontained beauty and power."

Eye Nature Sweet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Nature

"Power is in nature the essential measure of right."

Nature Essentials

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Nature

"Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar."

White Nature Rags

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Nature

"Nature is saturated with Deity."

Nature Deities Saturated

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Nature

"Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower."

Beautiful Nature Beauty

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author

Nature

"I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?"

Looks Nature Tree

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Vincent Van Gogh Painter

Nature

"The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her."

People Nature Have Faith

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Vincent Van Gogh Painter

Nature

"One can never study nature too much and too hard"

Nature Too Much Study

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

Nature

"A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe."

Men Nature Envy

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

Nature

"Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals."

Animal Nature Rain

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Rand Paul Politician

Nature

"Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?"

Science Party Nature

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Virginia Woolf Novelist

Nature

"But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them."

Nature Russia Sunset

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Ray Stevens Singer-Songwriter

Nature

"Everything is beautiful in it's own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day. And everybody's beautiful in their own way. Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find the way."

Beautiful Nature Summer

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author

Nature

"If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play."

Children Play Nature

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Theodore Parker Transcendentalist, Minister

Nature

"Nature is God's Old Testament."

Nature Old Testament Testament

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist

Nature

"By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears."

Hate Nature Change

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Scott Adams Cartoonist

Nature

"Dinosaur: I plan to use punctuated equilibrium to turn this zit into a third eye. Catbert: That's not a natural advantage. You'd better stay away from the fitter dinosaurs."

Eye Science Nature

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Thomas Guthrie Clergyman, Author

Nature

"In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it."

Children Beautiful Nature

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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist

Nature

"Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this."

Christian God Nature

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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist

Nature

"Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes."

Science Nature Rain

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