#nature

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#our #rediscover #remake #task

Water is the driving force of all nature. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed. ↗

— James Dean

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There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. ↗

— Claude Debussy

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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later year…the alienation from the sources of our strength. ↗

— Rachel Carson

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Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise ↗

— Tracy L. Conway

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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