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“Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind”
“The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.”
“The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.”
“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more ...”
“I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am free from the distractions constantly arising in civilized ...”
“For throughout history, the synthesizing impulse has proved a powerful even world-changing, tool for understanding the universe, capable of penetrating the intricate,contradictory web of surface ph...”
“This aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad....Here, in a fertile country, adorned with eternal verdure, we seek in vain the traces of the power of ...”
