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“Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.”

Men Humans Eye Nature Bird Angel Infinite Glasses Fishes Chains Thee Beast Insects Ethereal God And Nature

Author:Alexander Pope

“By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.”

Firsts Art Grows Nature Fishes Tails Impart Shipping Rudders Handmaids Small Beginnings

Author:John Dryden

“caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.”

Nature Space Strange Adventure Fishes Expected Prophet Caves Rebirth Strange Things Epiphany Inscrutable Salamanders

Book:Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark

Source: Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark

“Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.”

Giving May Reason Turns Nature Kissing Fishes Absurdity Slippery Nymphs Supple

Book:Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence

Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence

“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”

Men Literature Nature Loses Fishes Conviction Fishing

Author:John Steinbeck

“The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought”

Ifs Men Should Trying Running Stars Nature Born Sun Imagine Heard Lucky Moon My Friends Should Have Fishes Glad Each Day Old Man Running Away

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their growth in the egg,-this is all. It chanced to be a result that was found to apply to other groups and has led to other conclusions of a like nature.”

Source: Agassiz on Evolution: Methods of study in natural history