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Ivan Turgenev Quotes about Nature

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

1862 Fathers and Sons (translated by Rosemary Edmonds), ch.9.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.318, Delphi Classics