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Letter "N" » Nature
«However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.»
«He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.»
Author: Jack Kroll
| About:
Art,
Language,
Nature
| Keywords:
boundaries, inexplicable, leaps, nervous, startle, startled, systems, transmits
«If there can be such a thing as instinctual memory, the consciousness of land and water must lie deeper in the core of us than any knowledge of our fellow beings. We were bred of the earth before we were born of our mothers. Once born, we can live without our mothers or our fathers or any other kin or friend, or even human love. We cannot live without the earth or apart from it, and something is shriveled in man?s heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men.»
«I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them.»
«I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.»
Author: Viggo Mortensen
(Actor, Artist, Photographer, Writer)
| About:
Nature,
Wildlife
| Keywords:
desert, relief, waste of time, worthwhile
«If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.»
«Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Humanity,
Nature
| Keywords:
constructed, readily
«How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
intrude, intrudes, intrude into, intrude on, intruding, knock
«How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride.»
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