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“Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.”

Men Mean Doe Science Nature Loses Natural Secret Findings Perfection Curiosity Appearance Wisest Wisest Man

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.”

May Lasts Nature Powerful Mountain Findings Late Summer Snow June Patches Very Powerful

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to live at higher elevations and regulate the temperature within our homes. It is a major issue because ecosystems are finding it difficult to adapt to the rapidity of the climate and environmental changes and are dying off, thereby accelerating the species extinction that is already underway due to our consumption habits.”

“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”

Should Humans Literature Nature Wonder Fire Human Nature Birth Creatures Findings Pity Heroic Electric Heroism Pearls Rubbish

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.”

Source: The Illustrated West with the Night