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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet shell be constantly

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet shell be constantly running back. – Horace

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Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Progress of Culture”

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. – Jane Austen

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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. – David Hume

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To me, the worlds rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature. – David Hockney

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