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

Henry David Thoreau

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" If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated? "

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" To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species. "

" When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down. "

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" One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. "

" Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. "

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" I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am. "

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" I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment. "

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" The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. "

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" Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. "

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" Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? "

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" See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. "

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" There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. "

" It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all. "

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" The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. "

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" I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. "

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" It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. "

" I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. "

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" Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. "

" There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. "

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" Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. "

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" Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. "

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" I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable. "

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" Men are born to succeed, not to fail. "

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" To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. "

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" This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness. "

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" It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. "

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" Men have become the tools of their tools. "

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" It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. "

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