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“By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains.”

Source: The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts ... The Economy of Vegetation, and The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes

“A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!”

Looks Littles Faces Voice Nature White Wind Arms Bird Rivers Grass Charm Look Up Lap Mist Daisies Greetings

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty.”

Firsts Doe Nature Lines Common Flower Shapes Models Infinite Inequality Variety Charm Eden Nature Beauty Picturesque Progeny

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.”

I Can Nature Not Sure Charm Jack Kennedy

Author:Gene Tierney

“The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of the highest powers, the highest something in the universe, in whichever way we look at it... This is the charm of Study from Nature itself; she brings us back to absolute truth wherever we wander.”

Way Should Mind Looks Science Universe Nature Power Study Hard Work Highest Absolutes Wander Charm Lowest Intercourse Trifles Absolute Truth

Author:Louis Agassiz

“The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.”

Book Facts Used Term Nature Environment Mystery Satisfied Charm Fairy Spells Describing Enchantment

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton