Mark Twain Quotes About Nature
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.
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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
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Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.
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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
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