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Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ...

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It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull...

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Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Gie me a spark o' nature's fire that's a' the learning I desire.

Flow gently, sweet Afton,amang thy green braes,Flow gently, I'll sing theea song in thy praise;My Ma...

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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature ga...

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I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritu...

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Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and t...

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No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm."How ofte...

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They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they a...

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Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.T...

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Lovers, forget your love,And list the love of these,She a window flower,And he a winter breeze.

I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully m...

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Fireflies in the GardenBy Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And h...

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Robert FrostThe Poetry of Robert Frost

When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

You look at these mountains now, and they look so permanent and peaceful, but they're changing all t...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

BeautyIs the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic.If, after severalApplications, you...

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Robert Penn WarrenThe Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren

Spring is nature's way of saying "Let's party!"

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in meOlder a...

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God's miracles are to be found in nature itself the wind and waves the wood that becomes a tree - ...

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Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the fina...

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I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ...

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Ross MacdonaldSleeping Beauty

Learning certain things purely through memory is related to the developmental forces that are presen...

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You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human b...

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If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must ...

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NOW this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;And the Wolf that shall keep it ma...

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Rudyard KiplingThe Jungle Book

...for everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the...

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For nature does things in good order: And birds and butterflies recognizeNo man-made border

The rain swirls over the trees and roofs of the town, and the parched earth soaks it up, exuding a f...

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Ruskin BondDelhi Is Not Far

And when the rains were over and it was October and the birds were in song again, I could lie in the...

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Ruskin BondRain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas

The sunlight, penetrating the gaps in the tall trees, plays chess on the gravestones, shifting slowl...

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Ruskin BondThe Lamp is Lit: Leaves from a Journal

We are nature; we are nature as we munch gum and check the phone; we are nature as we queasily regre...

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The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in ...

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The woods were made for the hunter of dreams The brooks for the fishes of song.

You are on your back at the foot of an aspen. In its trembling shade. She at right angles propped on...

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Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas th...

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The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can,Hanging so light, and ha...

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IIA grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,      A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief,      W...

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Down the hill I went, and then,I forgot the ways of men,For night-scents, heady and damp and coolWak...

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If you could have confidence in nature you would not have to fear. It would keep you up. Creative is...

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Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat ...

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I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred...

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I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my...

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I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my...

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I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I...

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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it i...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus ha...

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Sherman AlexieYou Don't Have to Say You Love Me

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, s...

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The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given ...

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The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex m...

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The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air trave...

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains ...

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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the...

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We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into leg...

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The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind....

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Stephen Jay GouldBully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in ...

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Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&W...

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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imaginati...

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It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so m...

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So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know a...

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Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfis...

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Even evolutionary explanations of the traditional division of labor by sex do not imply that it is u...

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Apes have a wide variety of sexual arrangements. That means, by the way, that there is no such thing...

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The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the on...

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The pear trees were bare, their limbs spread open like the viscera of a parasol. Stretching into the...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Invention of Wings

I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had ente...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of wa...

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August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This i...

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So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of...

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Sylvia PlathThe Journals of Sylvia Plath

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and t...

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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me...

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I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god

It is not enough to say the crow flies purposefully, or heavily, or rowingly, or whatever. There are...

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Ted HughesPoetry in the Making: An Anthology

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

I think of going to the Grave without having a Psychedelic Experience is like going to the Grave wit...

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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explore...

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The Elven people believe that preservation of the land and all that lives and grows upon it, plant a...

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Terry BrooksThe Elfstones of Shannara

Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive s...

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Terry EagletonLiterary Theory: An Introduction

And now the birds were singing overhead, and there was a soft rustling in the undergrowth, and all t...

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Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and f...

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Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and f...

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There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never ...

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Terry PratchettThe Science of Discworld II: The Globe

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every...

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...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one trie...

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Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another l...

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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take...

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