"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."

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"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."

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"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Nature, Calm, Stability, Peace

"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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"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!"

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only."

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist

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"Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots."

Johann G. Hamann, German Philosopher

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"The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors."

Lee Scott, American Businessman

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"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."

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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

Art, Power, Nothing, Perfection

"Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

Love,

"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor."

Poor, Property, Right

"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."

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"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most."

Love, Thoughtful

"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."

Man, Men, Work, Accuracy, Actions

"Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition."

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"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride."

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"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."

Ignorance,