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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot
Nature, Fall, Autumn
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6444, Delphi Classics

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

George Eliot
Nature, Fall, Autumn
George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.31, 谷月社

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

George Eliot
Nature, Literature, Privacy
George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2264, ShandonPress

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

George Eliot
Spiritual, Nature, Self
George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.153, 谷月社

Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

George Eliot
Nature, Eye, Past
George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.312

Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

George Eliot
Nature, Real, Reading
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.113, Wordsworth Editions

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

George Eliot
Nature, Sunshine, Labor
George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.312

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

George Eliot
Change, Nature, Believe
George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.498, Penguin

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