Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Dream Quotes, Nature Quotes

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

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Nature is the art of God.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

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Human reason is by nature architectonic.

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Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

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What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

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Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

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...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

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How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.

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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

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As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

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Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Nature Quotes , World Quotes

Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.

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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

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