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"It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

Frederick Douglass on Nature

More quotes about Nature

  • "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

    Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

  • "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

    Anais Nin on Nature

  • "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

    Albert Einstein on Nature

  • "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

    e. e. cummings on Nature

  • "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

    Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by Frederick Douglass

  • "If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

  • "I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."

  • "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."

  • "America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future."

  • "We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."

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