Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps Quote

The study of nature, in any of her forms, is highly interesting and useful. But the heavenly bodies are far distant from us - and were they - within our reach, are too mighty for us to grasp, our feeble minds seem overwhelmed in the contemplation of their immensity.


Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary and Physiological, (5th edition), Lecture I (p. 15)


The study of nature, in any of her forms, is highly interesting and useful. But the heavenly bodies are far distant from us - and were they - within...

The study of nature, in any of her forms, is highly interesting and useful. But the heavenly bodies are far distant from us - and were they - within...

The study of nature, in any of her forms, is highly interesting and useful. But the heavenly bodies are far distant from us - and were they - within...

The study of nature, in any of her forms, is highly interesting and useful. But the heavenly bodies are far distant from us - and were they - within...