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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snow

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. – Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1856 January 5th

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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. – Tony Campolo

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Sound is the vocabulary of nature. – Pierre Schaeffer

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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. – Thornton Wilder

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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. – Baruch Spinoza

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