"Nature was my kindergarten."

William Christopher Handy, American Musician

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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."

Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist

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"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

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"Niagara Falls is a magnificent fall of dancing, singing, glowing, and flowing liquid love that exists to reconnect broken hearts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"When I am lost in the wonder of nature, my life is vivacious."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him."

Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist

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"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost."

Meriwether Lewis, American Explorer

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"Mountain is mountain."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."

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"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."

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"My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me."

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"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."

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"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."

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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."

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"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."

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"You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."

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"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day."

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"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."

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