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Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book VI: The Russian Monk, Chapter IIIIn context
- God
- Love
One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930A Study in Scarlet (1887), Part I, Chapter VIn context
- Ideas
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant1885–1981“What is Civilization?” Ladies’ Home Journal, LXIII (January, 1946)
He that planteth a tree is the servant of God,
He provideth a kindness for many generations,
And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
Henry van Dyke1852–1933The Friendly Trees.
Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 2: Butterflies and Superstrings, p. 14
- Science
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Imagined Worlds (1997)
- Science
Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Essay to Leo Baeck (1953), Ideas and Opinions
- Knowledge
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book First: Boy and Girl, Chapter VIn context
- Youth
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Waste Land (1922), IIn context
- Time
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
And striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), May-Day
- Change
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Nature (1836), Language
There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Nature (1836), Nature
- Poetry
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Nature (1836), Nature
- God