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“Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.”

Men Mean Doe Science Nature Loses Natural Secret Findings Perfection Curiosity Appearance Wisest Wisest Man

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.”

Age Earth Young Nature Secret Pages Golden Sage

Author:Richard Henry Stoddard

“Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.”

Art Nature Natural Secret Ultimate Japan Martial Arts Being Natural

Author:Toshitsugu Takamatsu

“Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.”

Sometimes Reality Inspiration Law Motivation Nature Secret Horizon True Nature Unbreakable Beyond The Horizon

Author:Brian Greene

“O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.”

Eye Lying Mother Waiting Nature Secret Patient Bosoms Gracious

Author:Margaret Junkin Preston

“Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature. This is because Zen has come to the definite conclusion that the ordinary logical process of reasoning is powerless to give final satisfaction to our deepest spiritual needs.”

Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.”

World Nature Effort Secret Periods Breaths Silent Wicked Wilderness Retreat Recreation Escaping Recourse Wicked World

Author:Benton MacKaye

“The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.”

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].”

Nature Secret Mystery Tree Roots Profound Absurd Existential Delirium

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.”

Eye Dies Grows Nature Secret Sun Blood Waste Logic Dawn Soil Vitality Halt Through The Eyes Allotments

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas