"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."
― Henry David Thoreau
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Nature
― Henry David Thoreau
More From Henry David Thoreau
- "Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."
- "Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?"
- "There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."
More In Nature
- "We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature."― Robert Lanza
- "America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think."― Jerry Garcia
- "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."― Carl Sagan