Nature
The upper western part of the Ore Mountains, known in German as Erzgebirge, belongs to the Ore Mountains/Vogtland Nature Park. The eastern part, called the Eastern Ore Mountains (Osterzgebirge), is a protected landscape. Further small areas are nature reserves and natural monuments, and are protected by the state.
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Famous quotes containing the word nature:
“Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“O, reason not the need! our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man’s life is cheap as beast’s.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A nobleman who is wicked is by nature a monster.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)