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“I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty.”

Years Science Names Nature Freedom Poor Rich Endless Glorious Fifty Always Happy Diploma Excursions Botany

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.”

Form Names Term Nature Thousand

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!”

Names Growth Nature Smart Butterfly Bees Conservation Breeze Amen Smart Growth

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.”

Knows Humans Looks Doe Important Real Names Nature Natural Color Flower Important Things Superfluous Natural Things

Book:Home to the wilderness: a personal journey

Source: Home to the wilderness: a personal journey

“I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.”

Ifs Mind Long Ends Names Nature Shelves Skulls Blondie

Author:Debbie Harry

“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”

Men Should Art Soul Artist Names Term Nature Perception Art Is Sacred Mere Senses Perceive Accurate Imitation Veils Reproduction

Book:The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings

Source: The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings

“No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.”

Shows Purpose Names Nature Conditions Needed Concepts Evidence Illness Obvious Mental Illness Obscure

Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.”

Law Names Nature Constitution Sacred Self Reliance Good And Bad Reliance

Book:Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity

Source: Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity

“It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.”

“Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.”

Humans Reason Able Names Nature Human Beings Animal Creatures Behave Small Creatures

Author:Ashley Montagu

“Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.”

Knows Love Names Nature Flower Latin Pluck Botany

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry

“Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!”

Humans Has Beens Names Nature Poor Human Nature Crime Committed Horrible Anarchism

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.”

Source: The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays