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Nature is
garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly
taciturn.
-- Paul Klee
1879-1940, Swiss Artist
Only those
within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the
leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what
living is.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch
1893-1970, American Writer,
Critic, Naturalist
Nature is not
human hearted.
-- Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese
Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''
All that is
sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the
serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of
light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the
fragrancy of smells, the splendor our precious stones, is
nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this
world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth
in such variety so much of its own nature.
-- William Law
American Merchant
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We
cannot remember too often that when we observe
nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is
always ourselves alone we are observing.
-- Georg C.
Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German
Physicist, Satirist
The
Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no
weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are
inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no
forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the
air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would
be well for our race if the punishment of crimes
against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the
punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature
--were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.
-- Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
1819-1892, American
Poet
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of
chaos.
-- Eric Mackay
It is
absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of
nature. What can change in historically different
circumstances is only the form in which these laws
expose themselves.
-- Karl Marx
1818-1883, German
Political Theorist, Social Philosopher
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