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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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Language is fossil poetry

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates o...more

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Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below.

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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same

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Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the languag...more

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She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

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Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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All things are engaged in writing their history...Not a foot steps into the snow, or along the ground, but prints in characters more or less lasting, ...more

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Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of image...more

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We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which ...more