"We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man."

Nature, Concern, Man, Moods

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"We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man."

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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

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"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I'm a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."

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"All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal."

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"Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another."

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"The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct."

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"A woman's beauty is one of her great missions."

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"In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence."

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"A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom."

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"It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living."

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"Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy."

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"Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies."

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