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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 teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out read more

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

by John Burroughs Found in: Nature Quotes,
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

by Alfred Lord Tennyson Found in: Nature Quotes,
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

by Walt Disney Found in: Nature Quotes,
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Nature Quotes,
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

by Henry Ward Beecher Found in: Nature Quotes,
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition read more

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Nature Quotes,
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Found in: Nature Quotes,
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[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .

[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .

by Paul Cezanne Found in: Nature Quotes,
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Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

by Alan Wilson Watts Found in: Nature Quotes,
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