Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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