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Robert Smithson

"Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development."

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"Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development."

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"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

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"Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die."

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"Listen to what the sky is telling you."

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"The love of God is the nature of the kingdom."

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"Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties."

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"The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing."

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"Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting Africa in the night."

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"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

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"When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us."

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"I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn't, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it's trailing edge faded into darkness, so close to being full, but not quite there. A pregnant moon, Grandma called it. Full almost to bursting, and ready to give birth to something unthinkable."

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"Nature is never finished."
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"The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality."
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"The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness."
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"Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification."
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"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."
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"Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising."
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"An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words."
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"Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning."
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"Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical."
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"I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation."
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