Anton Chekhov Quotes, Nature Quotes, Two Quotes

I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

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Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

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At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

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We shall not cease from exploration

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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

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NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

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Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

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Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

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LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.

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'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

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In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

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