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By space the Universe encompasses and swallows me as an atom, by thought I encompass it.
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On this bit of the wild world's stage are theatrical lightning changes of scenes—changes that on most mountains would require ten thousand years or more. It is a place of strange and fleeting landscapes; the earth is ever changing like the sky.
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Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of Nature in a spirit of humility.
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I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.
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The greatness and the minuteness of nature pass all understanding.
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Standing here in the deep, brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless, as if the work of creation were done.
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Nowhere will you see the majestic operations of nature more clearly revealed beside the frailest, most gentle and peaceful things.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Only spread a fern frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
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For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.
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The first and last lesson of the useful arts is, that Nature tyrannizes over our works.