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And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

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For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.

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Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.

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She loved no other part of botany quite so much as its Latin.

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Shall we ever subdue Nature and make her always submissive and compliant? Who knows what man may do with her when once he has got self, the universal self, under perfect mastery?

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He had lost life by making knowledge its ultimate end, and was still delving on, with never a laugh and never a cheer, feeding his emaciated heart on the locusts and wild honey of entomology and botany...

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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George Washington Cable

Born: October 12, 1844
Died: January 31, 1925 (aged 80)
Bio: George Washington Cable was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century, as well as the first modern southern writer.
Known for:
  1. The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life (1880)
  2. Old Creole days (1879)
  3. Madame Delphine (1881)
  4. Strange true stories of Louisiana (1889)
  5. John March Southerner (1894)

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