“The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.”
— Thomas Eakins
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What would be ugly in a garden
“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
— Victor Hugo
Author: Victor Hugo
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Nature hates calculators.
“Nature hates calculators.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The sea is everything. It covers seven
“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.”
— Jules Verne
Author: Jules Verne
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human
“The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.”
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Nature is wont to hide herself.
“Nature is wont to hide herself.”
— Heraclitus
Author: Heraclitus
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of
“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.”
— W. Somerset Maugham
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In the depth of winter I finally
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus
Author: Albert Camus
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The stars shall fade away, the sun
“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”
— Joseph Addison
Author: Joseph Addison
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It appears to be a law that
“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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