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    Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist

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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

by Henry David Thoreau Found in: Nature Quotes,
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In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to read more

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

by Vince Poscente Found in: Nature Quotes,
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Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the read more

Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?

by Frank N. Ikard Found in: Nature Quotes,
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Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.".

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.".

by Robert Byrne Found in: Nature Quotes,
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He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.

He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.

by Norman Mailer Found in: Nature Quotes,
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The ordinary corporation is a person for purposes of the adjudicatory processes, whether it represents proprietary, spiritual, aesthetic, or charitable read more

The ordinary corporation is a person for purposes of the adjudicatory processes, whether it represents proprietary, spiritual, aesthetic, or charitable causes.
So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life. The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.

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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

by John Muir Found in: Nature Quotes,
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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

by Decimus Junius Juvenal Found in: Nature Quotes,
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Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.

Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.

by Geoffrey Chaucer Found in: Nature Quotes,
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