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“But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.”

I Can Eye Nature Lines Mass Details Backgrounds Planes Relief Obscure Luminous

Author:Francisco Goya

“I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.”

I Can Different Fall Nature Natural Tree Blessing Notes Wander Sunshine Shade Leafs Breeze Harps Cedars

Book:Poetical works complete

Source: Poetical works complete

“I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split.”

Thinking Knows Way Mind Humans May I Can Book Body Nature Imagine Accidents Disappear Splits Human Experience Mind Body Nature Love

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.”

Source: Hard Times (And Other Stories)

“I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.”

I Can Nature Not Sure Charm Jack Kennedy

Author:Gene Tierney

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

“As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".”

Source: To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875

“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”

Long I Can Feelings Passion Nature Endure My Passion

Book:The Sayings of Lord Byron

Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron

“If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.”

Ifs Feels I Can Speak Nature Achieve Effects Flower Garden Infinite Blue Tone Colour Someday Old Fashioned Matching Flower Garden Monet

Author:Marcel Proust

“We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.”

Men I Can War Hard Nature Pay Hot Woods Steel Belly Clay Pierce

Book:Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

“It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.”

Giving I Can Humanity Nature Animal Seeing Cat Give Me Kitten Shiver

Book:Faithful Jenny Dove: And Other Illusions

Source: Faithful Jenny Dove: And Other Illusions

“When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction. Would it not be wiser if he should say 'Foiled again! I can find out no more about Nature along this line.'”

Ifs Giving Should May I Can Science Certain Nature Natural Lines Theory Satisfaction Range Formulas Representation Wiser Investigators

Author:Arthur Eddington

“In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.”

Littles I Can Book Science Nature Secret Wise Infinite Secrecy I Can Read

Author:William Shakespeare