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“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
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Kepler
People
People connected with this theme.
Bai Li
701 – 762 Poetry
Basho Matsuo
1644 – 1694 Poetry
Darwin
1809 – 1882 Science
Frost Robert
1874 – 1963 Poetry
Gaius Plinius
23 – 79 Philosophy
Hesiod
-780 – -705 Poetry
Issa Kobayashi
1763 – 1827 Poetry
Lamarck Jean-Baptiste
1744 – 1829 Science
London Jack
1876 – 1916 Literature
Naes Arne
1912 – 2009 Philosophy
Pliny the Elder
23 – 79 Philosophy
Theocritus
-315 – -260 Poetry
Tyutchev Fyodor
1803 – 1873 PoetryQuotes
Selected words connected with this theme.
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“I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.”
Reich Wilhelm
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“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.”
Sade,Marquis de
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“Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal.”
Lamarck Jean-Baptiste
Hydrogéologie (1802)
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“Nature considered rationally, that is to say, submitted to the process of thought, is a unity in diversity of phenomena; a harmony blending together all created things, however dissimilar in form and attributes; one great whole animated by the breath of life.”
Humboldt Alexander
Cosmos, Vol. I
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“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Byron George
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“I've found that there is always some beauty left, in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
Frank Anne
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“Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.”
Gauguin
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“The first and fundamental law of Nature is to seek peace and follow it.”
Hobbes
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“Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.”
Delacroix
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“Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.”
Toulouse
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“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. ”
Manet Edouard
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“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”
Heine Heinrich
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“There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.”
Tyutchev Fyodor
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“What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.”
Lamarck Jean-Baptiste
Philosophie Zoologique (1809)
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“The most important result of a rational inquiry into nature is, therefore, to establish the unity and harmony of this stupendous mass of force and matter.”
Humboldt Alexander
Cosmos, Vol. I
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“Look deep into nature and you ll understand everything better.”
Einstein
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“Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Durant Will
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“The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found, it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.”
Courbet Gustave
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“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.”
Dickens
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“ To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”
Smith Adam
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“Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet strengthening influence on the wearied spirit, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.”
Humboldt Alexander
Cosmos, Vol. I
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“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” ”
Leonardo da Vinci
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“Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.”
Gramsci
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“No speech can stain what is noble by nature. ”
Sophocles
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“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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Austen Jane
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“My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
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Milley Edna
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“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Munch Edvard
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“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.”
Lamartine
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“There comes an age, when you want a nature instead of the city and crowds. Parisian statues are awesome, but its nature is not so fascinating”
Aznavour Charles
Book Excerpts
Selected passages from books connected with this theme.
Wandering: Notes and Sketches
Hesse Hermann · 1920
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. …
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Thoreau Henry · 1854
from Chapter 1: "Economy"
I moved to my house on the Fourth of July, as soon as it was boarded and roofed, for the boards were carefully feather-edged and lapped so that it was perfectly impervious to rain; but before …
Out of Africa
Blixen Karen · 1937
(First pages and selected excerpts)
1. THE NGONG FARM
I HAD a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of …
Poems
Selected poems connected with this theme.
Campos de Castilla (Fields of Castile)
Machado Antonio · 1912
Everything passes, yet everything remains;
but our part is to pass,
to make our way,
to make paths upon the sea.
I have never sought
the glory
of leaving my song
in the memory of men.
I love subtle worlds,
wei …
24 Haiku
Basho Matsuo · 1690
English renderings created for Hall of People with the assistance of ChatGPT.
1.
Facing Mount Yudono, I wept—
there was no other way
to thank the sacred mountain.
2.
The blazing current
carries the sun to …
Selected haikus
Issa Kobayashi
In this world
we walk on the roof of hell,
gazing at flowers.
A bath when you're born,
a bath when you die,
how stupid.
Don't know about the people,
but all the scarecrows
are crooked.
Blossoms at night,
…
Waking From Drunkenness on a Spring Day
Bai Li
Life in the world is but a big dream;
I will not spoil it by any labour or care.
So saying, I was drunk all the day,
Lying helpless at the porch in front of my door.
When I awoke, I blinked at the garden-lawn;
…
Fields Of Soria
Machado Antonio · 1912
Hills of silver plate,
grey heights, dark red rocks
through which the Duero bends
its crossbow arc
round Soria, shadowed oaks,
stone dry-lands, naked mountains,
white roads and river poplars,
twilights of Soria, w …
Ode to the West Wind
Shelley Percy · 1819
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken …
Afternoon On A Hill
Milley Edna · 1917
I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
And the grass rise.
And when lig …