Nature and Cause
This vowel shift is well attested in Hebrew and other Canaanite languages, but its exact nature is unclear and contested.
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Famous quotes containing the word nature:
“But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)