“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”
— Langston Hughes
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“An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.”
— Henri Matisse
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“We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.”
— Robert Lanza
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“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”
— Richard P. Feynman
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“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.”
— Walter Scott
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“The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.”
— Quintilian
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“Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.”
— Baruch Spinoza
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“Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.”
— Fran Lebowitz
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“We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The structure of life I have described in buildings – the structure which I believe to be objective – is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.”
— Christopher Alexander
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