Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as tr…

George Santayana
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Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains. ✨ George Santayana (1968). Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy
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