Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Nature
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If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.
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The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
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For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.
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Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.
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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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