NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret.
- #Goethe
- #Goethe
We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. She has always thought and always thinks; though not as a man, but as Nature. That which is most unnatural is still Nature; the stupidest philistinism has a touch of her genius.
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- #Goethe
Who so cannot see her everywhere, sees her nowhere rightly. The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
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- #Goethe
We obey her laws even when we rebel against them; we work with her even when we desire to work against her. She has isolated all things in order that all may approach one another.
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- #Goethe
She holds a couple of draughts from the cup of love to be fair payment for the pains of a lifetime. She is complete, but never finished.
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- #Goethe
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