Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

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Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. Roger Miller

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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin

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You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. - Bob Dylan

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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. Blaise Pascal

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Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. Bhumibol Adulyadej

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For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. Martin Luther

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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. Robert Green Ingersoll

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Everything in excess is opposed to nature. Hippocrates

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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. Arthur C. Clarke

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The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. Jean Ingelow

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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Havelock Ellis

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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo Galilei

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Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. Anton Chekhov

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Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. Lucy Maud Montgomery

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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B. White

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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. Bertrand Russell

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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. Aristotle

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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. Jules Verne