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?
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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .
[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, read more
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,
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At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,
When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill
And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove.
All argument will vanish before one touch of nature.
All argument will vanish before one touch of nature.
Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.".
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.".
