Famous quotes containing the words contagious and/or nature:
“Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)