6 Quotes by Victor Hugo about nature
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Germination embraces in its complexity the explosion of a meteor and the breaking of the eggshell by the peck of the swallow's beak, and is equally responsible for the birth of an earthworm and the coming of Socrates. Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the greater vision? You choose. A patch of mould is a constellation of flowers. A nebula is an ant's nest of stars.
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This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is to say, something as impenetrable as a forest, as densely populated as a city, as tremulous as a nest, as tenebrous as a cathedral, as aromatic as a bouquet, as lonely as a tomb, as much a living thing as a crowd.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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