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“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“Eliminate mental muddiness and obscurity; keep your mind crystal clear. Allow your pure original insight to emerge. Quiet your emotions and abide in serenity. Don't go crazy with the worship of idols, images, and ideas; this is like putting a new head on top of the head you already have. Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Remember Nature Emotion Clear Crazy Pure Activity Quiet Worship Originals Insight Cease Idols Serenity Restless Crystals Obscurity

Author:Laozi

“No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure”

May Matter Moments Nature Clear Pure Essentials Confused Deluded

Book:Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire

Source: Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire

“For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of natural science, as revealed in the study of particles and of the cosmos, is allied to the litheness of a merganser diving in a pure Swedish lake, or the grace of a dolphin leaving shining trails at night in the Gulf of California.”

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Author:Murray Gell-Mann

“There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.”

Light Fall Nature Secret Share Pure Errors Faults Graves Truthful Severe Competent Trifling

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.”

Book Faces Three Nature Pleasure Pure Lasting

Book:Sketches of the Principal Picture-galleries in England, with a Criticism on

Source: Sketches of the Principal Picture-galleries in England, with a Criticism on

“One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.”

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Book:Complete writings of John Burroughs

Source: Complete writings of John Burroughs

“Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.”

Wells Heart May Nature Environment Wise Pure Waste Desert Awake Plot Faculty Nature Beauty Vacant

Book:Letters, Conversations and Recollections

Source: Letters, Conversations and Recollections

“...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner consciousness and without drawing to any appreciable extent on their experience of the outer world.”

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Book:The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]

Source: The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]

“In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem.”