Quote by William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending,

The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. – William Wordsworth

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Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. – Henry Adams

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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse. – David Bailey

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The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore. – Frieda Harris

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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. – John Fowles

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