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Posted: 17 Nov 2019

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 Dinesh
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. . . For this love affair with the natural world that drives men and women to their boldest feats of exploration and invention. Richard Dawkins has caught the mood exactly: “After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on the sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life. Within decade we must close our eyes again. In\sm’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why do I bother to get up in the mornings.”

And if Dawkins is not to your taste, let Henri Poincare say it instead: “The savant does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he takes delight in it, and he takes delight in it because it is beautiful. If nature was not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing and life would not be worth living. ~Page 124

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 Cheryl Kelly (cher12861 on flickr)
Cheryl Kelly (cher12…
Enchanting!
4 years ago.
 Jean
Jean
Beautiful image which illustrates the quotations perfectly.
4 years ago.
 Nora Caracci
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exquisite painting !!!
4 years ago.

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