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" Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. "
Diane Ackerman
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Nature
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" Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring. "
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" Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. "
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" Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration. "
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" I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature. "
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" The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. "
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" The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. "
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" I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature. "
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" Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. "
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" How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate. "
John Burroughs
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" Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. "
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" Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. "
George Eliot
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" Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual. "
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" Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. "
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" The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. "
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" I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. "
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" We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. "
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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. "
Cary Fowler
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" The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. "
D. H. Lawrence
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" Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. "
Honore de Balzac
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" Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. "
Robert Smithson
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" Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest. "
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" It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. "
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" We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher. "
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" Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. "
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" The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual. "
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" One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought. "
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