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Letter "N" » Nature
«After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn?t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked?as I am surprisingly often?why I bother to get up in the mornings.»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| About:
Compassion,
Conscience,
Creativity,
Discovery,
Evolution,
Existence,
Experience,
Exploration,
Goodness,
Gratitude,
Happiness,
Knowledge,
Learning,
Life,
Mankind,
Meditation,
Mortality,
Nature,
Opportunity,
Perception,
Perspective,
Philosophy,
Responsibility,
Truth,
Wisdom
«Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention»
«After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open slies.»
«An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Gifts,
Heaven,
Mind,
Nature,
Thought
| Keywords:
equable, good nature, good weather, inexhaustible, oil, roughest, smooth, spreading, troubled
«All men by nature desire to know.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Desire,
Mankind,
Nature
| Keywords:
desire to know
«All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right»
«All nature is but art unknown to thee.»
«Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Art,
Motherhood,
Nature
| Keywords:
aspect, Darling, features, Mother Nature, trace
«Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.»
«Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Experience,
Nature,
Reason
| Keywords:
commence, commenced, commences, investigate, investigated, investigates, investigating, proceed, with reason
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