Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging fr…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims
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