Va prendre tes leçons dans la nature

English translation: "Nature is the best teacher." -Leonardo da Vinci

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French term or phrase:	Va prendre tes leçons dans la nature
English translation:	"Nature is the best teacher." -Leonardo da Vinci
Entered by:	silvester55

15:03 Apr 21, 2011

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French term or phrase: Va prendre tes leçons dans la nature

This is a Leonordo da Vinci quote, the French version of which gets lots of google hits.

The full sentence is, it seems, "Va prendre tes leçons dans la nature, c'est là qu'est notre futur", although in my context I just need the first bit.

It's given in quotation marks in my text, so I'd like to provide the standard English version (if any).

The usual searches have failed to turn up an answer. Anyone able to identify this quote and a good reference for it?
I can of course simply translate it myself as the original was not in English, but I'm hoping there's a standard version out there somewhere...

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"Nature is the best teacher." -Leonardo da Vinci

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Note added at 14 mins (2011-04-21 15:18:42 GMT)
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another beautiful one.
“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.” - Leonardo da Vinci

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Note added at 27 mins (2011-04-21 15:30:44 GMT)
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“Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.” - William Wordsworth

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