George Sand - Nature Quotes

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Of Chopin:
His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night was surely filled with raindrops, resounding clearly on the tiles of the Charterhouse, but it had been transformed in his imagination and in his song into tears falling upon his heart from the sky.

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Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

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Nature distributes her favors unequally. To some of her creatures she gives intelligence, to others beauty.

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The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

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Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.

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Nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

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I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

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God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

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We are of nature, in nature, by nature, and for nature. Talent, will, genius, are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

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