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If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries
aloud
Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
Aristotle
Quotes , Source: Ethics (III, 5)
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Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?--
To its own impulse every creature stirs;
Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!
Matthew Arnold
Quotes , Source: Religious Isolation (st. 4)
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death,
And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
Philip James Bailey
Quotes , Source: Festus (sc. Water and Wood)
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At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,
When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill
And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove.
James Beattie
Quotes , Source: The Hermit
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Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection
of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there
were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another.
In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of
God.
Sir Thomas Browne
Quotes , Source: Religio Medici (sec. 16)
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I trust in Nature for the stable laws
Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant
And Autumn garner to the end of time.
I trust in God--the right shall be the right
And other than the wrong, while he endures;
I trust in my own soul, that can perceive
The outward and the inward, Nature's good
And God's.
Robert Browning
Quotes , Source: A Soul's Tragedy (act I)
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To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language.
William Cullen Bryant
Quotes , Source: Thanatopsis
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See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea,
one river, and see all.
Robert Burton
Quotes , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. 2, memb. 4, subsec. 7)
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I am a part of all you see
In Nature: part of all you feel:
I am the impact of the bee
Upon the blossom; in the tree
I am the sap--that shall reveal
The leaf, the bloom--that flows and flutes
Up from the darkness through its roots.
Madison Julius Cawein
Quotes , Source: Penetralia
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[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .
Paul Cezanne
Quotes , Source: The World of Mathematics
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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
[Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae arte perfecta
sunt.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Natura Deorum (II, 34)
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly
Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke
Quotes , Source: in "Nature"
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Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;
Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads
The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Table Talk (l. 690)
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid Nature.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Task (bk. I, The Sofa, l. 181)
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Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
Lorraine Anderson
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