"To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest."
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"It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature."
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"Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract."
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"Nature is the living, visible garment of God."
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"No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth."
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"Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man."
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"By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values."
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"On all the peaks lies peace."
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"The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life."
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"Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage"
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"Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows."
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"Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree."
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"Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them."
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"Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole."
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"Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms."
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"To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same."
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"In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal."
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"Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog."
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"One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests."
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"Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love."
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