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“I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.”

Should Matter Law Nature Study Expression Communication Source Travel Ocean Unions Streams Wilderness Shore Rays Crossings Magnetic Dealings Aurora

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.”

Love Suffering Understanding Nature Our Lives Expression Manifestation Insecurity Attachment True Nature

Book:Zen and the Art of Falling in Love

Source: Zen and the Art of Falling in Love

“Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.”

Knows Way Giving Two Sides Nature Color Expression Green Stem Leafs Purple Two Sides Monotonous Hue Palette Bronze

Author:Mabel Osgood Wright

“Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature upon him, and sent down his only begotten son, Charles Darwin, or Huxley, into the world so that those who believe in him, &c.; and they will burn people for saying that science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.”

People World Believe Science Nature Natural Ignorance Son Expression Accounts Ignorant Huxley

Book:The note-books of Samuel Butler

Source: The note-books of Samuel Butler

“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Needs Eye Earth Nature Expression Hunger Loyalty Paradise Wilderness Bores Great Outdoors

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which make the face of the world what it is, and as we see it, is interesting and instructive. Until we get hold of a group of physical facts, we do not know what practical bearings they may have, though right-minded men know that they contain many precious jewels, which science, or the expert hand of philosophy will not fail top bring out, polished, and bright, and beautifully adapted to man's purposes.”

“A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.”

Men Nature Expression Gratitude Garden Appreciation Cheer Thankfulness Cheerfulness Benign Joyfulness

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.”

Nature Animal Wonder Brother Expression Pet Monkeys Apes Keepers Zoos

Author:Evan Esar

“Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of the science, and thus what appears to us as elegance of description really reflects the interconnectedness of Nature's laws at different levels.”

Different Law Science Term Nature Simple Levels Stage Expression Development Simplicity Mathematical Description Equations Elegance Interconnectedness Different Levels Stages Of Development

Author:Murray Gell-Mann