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Nature: Aphorisms by Goethe

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NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.

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HUXLEY, T. Nature: Aphorisms by Goethe. Nature 1, 9–11 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001009a0

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