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“The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the features of nature, that demonstrates to us, that the whole is one family of one parent.”

Whole Hands Science Certain Parent Nature Natural Evolution All Things Creator Features

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.”

Earth Fall Enjoy Nature Lord Creatures Highest Delight Features Glorious Weed

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...

“Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.”

Children Art Faces Mother Artist Nature Attitude Art Is Aspect Features Darling

Author:Beck

“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.”

“The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.”

Made Faces Force Nature Tree Movement Habit Destruction Permanent Features Gestures Accustomed Arrested Metamorphosis Nymphs Pompeii

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

“The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then.”

Book Science Nature Views Theory Discovery Absurd Features Revelations Quantum Continuity Quantum Theory

Book:What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Source: What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches