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“And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

“Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.”

Knows Way Giving Two Sides Nature Color Expression Green Stem Leafs Purple Two Sides Monotonous Hue Palette Bronze

Author:Mabel Osgood Wright

“A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the river side. He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns.”

Ends Country Care Sides Nature Walks Quiet Summer Rivers Weight Towns Sunset Breasts Meadows Tranquil Dwellers

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess.”

Art Sides Nature Infinite Bounds Productions Variety Divinity Capability Finite Boundless Exhausting Priestesses

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.”

Source: The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood

“Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.”

Life Death Sides Nature Tree Birth Garden Life And Death Insightful Leafs Birth Life Dry Leaves Birth Life And Death

Book:Sula

Source: Sula

“We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution.”

Ifs Men World Whole Eye Science Process Sides Nature Development Evolution Draws Assuming Factors Conclusion Reasoning Organisms Accord Ancestry

Author:August Weismann

“We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.”

Knows Men Long Two Science Sides Nature Natural History Mankind Accounts Divided Two Sides

Author:Karl Marx