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Quote by John Muir
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed natur

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. – John Muir

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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creations braggart lords. – John Muir

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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. – John Muir

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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. – Werner Heisenberg

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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. – Jules Verne

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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. – Vladimir Nabokov

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We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation. – George H. W. Bush

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