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The sun will
set without thy assistance.
-- The Talmud
BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish
Archive of Oral Tradition
I know no
subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the
poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the
moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet
such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
-- James Thomson
1700-1748, Scottish Poet
We can never
have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of
inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the
sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living
and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain
which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to
witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing
freely where we never wander.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
However much
you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in
comprehensible words.
-- Ivan Turgenev
1818-1883, Russian Author
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Warm
summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind,
blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie
light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good
night.
-- Mark Twain
1835-1910, American
Humorist, Writer
Our
task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
-- Raoul Vaneigem
1934-, Belgian
Situationist Philosopher
The
law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
-- Marquis De
Vauvenargues
1715-1747, French
Moralist
After
you have exhausted what there is in business,
politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found that
none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear
-- what remains? Nature remains.
-- Walt Whitman
1819-1892, American
Poet
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