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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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“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'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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“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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“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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“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. ”
Milley Edna
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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
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