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“Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.”

Men World Want Giving Law Science Spirit Nature Born Imagination Natural Break Subjects Fool Return Giving Up Bounds Vain Visible Can Not Soar

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.”

Nature Imagination Theory Subtle Usual Surpassing

Book:The Quotable Feynman

Source: The Quotable Feynman

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”

“Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.”

Art Moments Nature Imagination Feminism West Feminist Myth Vehicle Stereotype Assault Stunning

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”

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Author:Baruch Spinoza

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

Source: The Portable William Blake

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”

“They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.”

Made Would Be Language Nature Imagination Animal Thousand Ten Speech Tragedy Burden Beast Portions Our Thoughts Disappearance Silencing Beast Of Burden

Book:A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.”

Nature Imagination Travel Waste Valuable Useless Wilderness Maps Blank Conservation Wildlife Conservation Land Conservation

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.”

World Matter Nature Imagination Offers Lonely Exciting Harsh Geese Announcing Wild Geese

Author:Mary Oliver

“No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate the structure and function of the human system, whether we direct our attention to the classification and habits of the animal kingdom, or prosecute our researches in the more pleasing and varied field of vegetable life, we shall constantly find some new object to attract our attention, some fresh beauties to excite our imagination, and some previously undiscovered source of gratification and delight.”

Source: A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia

“To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

Source: The Portable William Blake

“The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.”

Should Science Nature Imagination Study Imagine Exercise Physicians Inspection Dregs

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq