Quote by Henry Miller
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his ow

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. – Henry Miller

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To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. – Henry Miller

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Murder
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Topographically the country is magnificent — and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak. – Henry Miller

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Land
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Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadnt the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. – Henry Miller

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Superstition
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. – Saint Augustine

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Nature

Nature isnt positive in that way. It doesnt aim itself at you. Its not being unkind to you. – David Attenborough

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Nature

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. – Ansel Adams

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Nature

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. – Wallace Stevens

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Nature

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