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The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Picasso, Batsford (1938).)
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The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.
(Aristotle (384-323 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Politics 1.2; 1253a2-3, The Complete Works of Aristotle, trans. by Jowett, ed. Jonathan Barnes, Princeton, Princeton University Press (1985).)
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Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds,
But animated nature sweeter still,
To soothe and satisfy the human ear.
(William Cowper (1731-1800), British poet. The Task (I, l. 197-199).
NAEL-1. Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abrams, general ed. (5th ed., 1986) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife:
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art:
(Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British poet. The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree (l. 7-10). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
(Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher. Originally published in Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2 (1851). "On Women," Essays and Aphorisms, Penguin (1970).)
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
(Alice Meynell (1847-1922), British poet, essayist. "The True Colour of Life," Essays (1914).)
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), British author. Sherlock Holmes, in A Study in Scarlet, ch. 5 (1888).)
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Parents fear lest the natural love of their children may fade away. What kind of nature is that which is subject to decay? Custom is a second nature which destroys the former. But what is nature? For is custom not natural? I am much afraid that nature is itself only a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
(Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, philosopher. repr. Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago (1952). Pensιes, no. 93 (1670), trans. J.M. Dent & Sons, London (1931).)
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