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" We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. "

Theophrastus

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Generation

Life

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" I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. "

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" A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp. "

" I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows. "

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" High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. "

" All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. "

" Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. "

" Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. "

" The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life. "

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

" Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. "

" A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. "

" The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many. "

" Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. "

" When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. "

" Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature. "

" The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. "

" Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. "

" Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. "

" To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. "

" How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate. "

" Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. "

" Nature was my kindergarten. "

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Nature