"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion."

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"Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Nature, Night, Darkness, Sunset, Mystery

"All art is but imitation of nature."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Nature, Art, Imitation

"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Nature, Effort, Living, Nothing

"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Nature, Space

"Put your ears to the ground, to the sky, to the sun and the moon... tune in to Mother Earth's sweet song. She has messages to say, knowledge to relay, inspiration to convey... there is much for you to learn. Your journey has just begun."

Melody Lee, American Poet

Nature, Learning, Journey, Inspirational

"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

Nature, Growth, Observation, Beauty

"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

Nature, Twilight, Observation, Wonder, Reflection

"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

Stephen King, American Author

Nature, Today, Power, Wisdom

"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

Stephen King, American Author

Nature, Life, Truth, Death, Wisdom

"We ran as if to meet the moon."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Nature, Freedom, Poetry, Joy

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"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."

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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

"Put your ears to the ground, to the sky, to the sun and the moon... tune in to Mother Earth's sweet song. She has messages to say, knowledge to relay, inspiration to convey... there is much for you to learn. Your journey has just begun."

"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

"We ran as if to meet the moon."

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"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."

"Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest."

"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened."

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."

"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."