The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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