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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature wa

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen mens apples and head their cabbages. – Cyrano de Bergerac

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I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. – Jerome K. Jerome

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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. – Diane Ackerman

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All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. – John Coltrane

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. – Virginia Woolf

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