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 Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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I fancy Emerson's conspicuous, yet obscure and dichotomous way of describing how the mutable cloud is both "always" and "never" the same.
Nature then, like man (or wo-man, to piggyback and plead the feminine case, from yesterday's quote), has in his complex makeup, both a constant and variegated characteristic, which not only shows the diverse emotional state of what it means to be human, but also shows the selfsame peculiarities between man and nature.
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Yes, just like the rest of us. If two snow fakes are never the same, why not us, as long as we remain what we were created.
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My life is "always and never the same." Good quote Dameon, 
"He who never made a mistake never made a discovery." Samuel Smiles
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Sorry, Daemon!
"He who never made a mistake never made a discovery." Samuel Smiles
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The same in its generalities but different in its particularities. We all are irrepeatable history living irrepeatable moments. and yet a sense of deja vu often overwhelms us.
look into my eyeballs, there thy beauty lies, then why not lips on lips since eyes on eyes? William Shakespeare
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But is Emerson's 'Nature' warming?
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