"Nature goes her own way, and all..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
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“Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.”
“Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.[Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]”
“Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.”
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“Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.”
“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”
“The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.”