Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

—Thornton Wilder

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It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

—Loudon Wainwright III

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I love not man the less, but Nature more.

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Nature is a petrified magic city.

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Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

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