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“The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.”

World Humans Moving Science Nature Natural Lines Human Beings Clear Cutting Draws Machines Edges

Book:Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

“Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.”

Nature Magic Draws Seasons Seeking Wilderness

Author:Arthur Lismer

“Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.”

Law Purpose Nature Draws Mood Seeming Lawlessness

Book:At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

Source: At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”

Nature Fire Color Draws Flames Dragonflies

Book:Hopkins: The Mystic Poets

Source: Hopkins: The Mystic Poets

“The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.”

Men Death Peace Nature Hours Walks Effort Path Honest Honesty He Man Draws Aim Life And Death Vigorous

Book:Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem

Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem

“I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time.”

Believe Humans God Spiritual Moving Time Spirituality Belief I Believe Nature Destiny Strength Draws Destruction Absolutes Harmony Cruelty Spiritual Power Moving Away

Author:Jane Goodall

“We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution.”

Ifs Men World Whole Eye Science Process Sides Nature Development Evolution Draws Assuming Factors Conclusion Reasoning Organisms Accord Ancestry

Author:August Weismann

“The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.”

Facts Seems Science Nature Natural Essentials Capable Draws Accounts Mathematics Observation Mathematical

Author:James Jeans

“While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain.”

Philosophy Science Nature Natural Secret Mystery Draws Ultimate Imperfection Veils Newton Obscurity Mystery Of Nature

Book:The Commonwealth, and the reigns of Charles II. and James II

Source: The Commonwealth, and the reigns of Charles II. and James II