"She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean."
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"Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble."
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"Nature distributes her favors unequally."
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"Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties."
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"The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes."
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"Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow."
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"Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them."
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"Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon."
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"If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse."
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"Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London."
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"The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world."
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"Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?"
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"Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature."
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"Nature alone is the master of true genius."
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"Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it."
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"Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her."
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"To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements."
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"Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly resembles another, and not only the plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves, and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another."
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"Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea."
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"O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments."
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