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“Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.”

Ifs World Believe Whole Seems Nature Common Creation Judging Claims Trade Common Sense Revelations Anarchy Fringe Extremism Lunatic Likelihood Giraffe Improbability

Author:Annie Dillard

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture”

Men Culture Nature Claims Victim Feminist Prostitution Criminal Mind Conqueror Outlaw Courtesans

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.”

Knows Doe Science Nature Existence Claims Difficulty Resistance Spite Vacuums

Author:Evangelista Torricelli

“Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things ... subservient to the rule of law.”

May Law Science Lying Speak Nature Wonderful Findings Miracle Claims Titles Operations Paradox Wonderful Things Rule Of Law Subservient

Book:Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

Source: Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

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