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Nature is never more truly herself than in her grandest forms.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Nature is never more truly herself than in her grandest forms.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke celebrates the grandeur of nature, suggesting it reveals its true essence in its most magnificent forms.
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