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“Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.”

Men World Want Giving Law Science Spirit Nature Born Imagination Natural Break Subjects Fool Return Giving Up Bounds Vain Visible Can Not Soar

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.”

Ends Form Nature Natural Mountain Bounds Affection Landscape Inferiors Scenery Natural Scenery

Author:John Muir

“Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess.”

Art Sides Nature Infinite Bounds Productions Variety Divinity Capability Finite Boundless Exhausting Priestesses

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth: Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.”

Earth Heaven Nature Sun Flower Health Birth Bounds Streams Valleys Beam Splendor Freshness Gale

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love - all were bound up with the garden and its products, especially flowers. Few Oriental nations can think of a festival without flowers, but nowhere are they so completely a part of human life, and so essential, as in [Ancient] Egypt.”

Thinking Life Humans Nations Nature Flower Products Essentials Garden And Love Bounds Dear Ancient Human Life Valleys Egypt Linked Festivals Ancient Egypt Dwellers Nile

Author:Marie-Luise Gothein

“I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.”

Nature My Own Healing Tree Shadow Bounds Woods Forests Heat Vines Plant A Tree Orchard Forests And Trees Fruit Trees Tree Planting Plants And Trees Woods And Forests

Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”

“Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit--some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.”

World Earth Spirit Suffering Found Grows Nature Memories Ability Objects Creatures Enlightenment Fellows Bounds Nostalgia Remedy Alienation Ingenuity

Book:The Invisible Pyramid: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: The Invisible Pyramid: A Library of America eBook Classic

“The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives - and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!”

Source: The Writings of John Burroughs: Birds and poets, with other papers

“Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.”

Men Science Nature Natural Forever Bounds Spread Tendencies Regions Innate Urgency

Book:The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America

Source: The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America

“The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.”

Source: The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley