Nature Quotes
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“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
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“The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.”
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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
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“I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.”
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“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
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“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”
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“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
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“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
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“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”
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“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
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“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
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“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
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“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
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“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”
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“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
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“Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.”
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“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
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“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”
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“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
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“Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.”
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“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”
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“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”
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“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”
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“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
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“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
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“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”
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“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”
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“Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'”
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“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
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“The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.”
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“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”
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“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
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“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
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“Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.”
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“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
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“Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.”
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“He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.”
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“A forest bird never wants a cage.”
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“On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.”
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“Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.”
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“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.”
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“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”
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“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.”
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“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.”
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“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
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“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
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“Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.”
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“Land really is the best art.”
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“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
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“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”
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“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
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“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
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“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”
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“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”
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“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”
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“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
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“O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
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“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
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“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
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“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”
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“Nature is the art of God.”
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“The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.”
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“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”
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“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
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“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”
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“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
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“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”
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“My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.”
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“Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.”
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“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
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“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”
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“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”
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“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.”
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“With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.”
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“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
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“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”
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“Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?”
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“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
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“A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”
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“There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.”
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“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.”
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“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.”
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“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.”
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“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”
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“Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.”
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“Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.”
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“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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“Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.”
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“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
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“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
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“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
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“'The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.' - e. e. cummings”
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“Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.”
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“Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.”
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“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”
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“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”
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“With the coming of spring, I am calm again.”
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“Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.”
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“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
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“During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.”
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“When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”
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“Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.”
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“Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.”
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“The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.”
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“Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.”
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“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
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“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
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“The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.”
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“Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.”
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“There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.”
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“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.”
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“What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.”
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“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”
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“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
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“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
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“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
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“The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.”
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“This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.”
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“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
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“The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.”
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“Nature is wont to hide herself.”
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“Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.”
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“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”
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“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.”
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“Moonlight is sculpture.”
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“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
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“The view of Earth is spectacular.”
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“The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.”
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“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”
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“Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.”
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“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?”
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“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”
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“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
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“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.”
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“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
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“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.”
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“As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.”
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“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.”
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“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.”
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“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
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“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”
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“Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.”
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“Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.”
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“The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.”
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“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
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“Sound is the vocabulary of nature.”
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“I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.”
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“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”
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“In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.”
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“In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.”
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“As the twig is bent the tree inclines.”
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“I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.”
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“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”
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“The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.”
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“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”
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“For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.”
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“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”
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“The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.”
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“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.”
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“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”
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“The world is always in movement.”
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“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
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“We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.”
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“Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.”
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“Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.”
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“Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.”
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“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”
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“The sea has neither meaning nor pity.”
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“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.”
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“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
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“All nature wears one universal grin.”
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“To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.”
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“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”
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“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”
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“The good man is the friend of all living things.”
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“There's no night without stars.”
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
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“I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.”
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“Giant oak trees… have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.”
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“The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.”
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“The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.”
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“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
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“Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.”
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“Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.”
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“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
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“Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.”
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“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”
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“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”
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“Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.”
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“Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.”
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“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.”
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“My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.”
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“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
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“Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.”
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“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”
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“One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.”
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“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.”
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“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
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“Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.”
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“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”
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“The earth laughs in flowers.”
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“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”
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“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”
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“The groves were God's first temples.”
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“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”
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“Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.”
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“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.”
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“Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.”
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“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
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“I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.”
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“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.”
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“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
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“There is no forgiveness in nature.”
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“Nature is neutral.”
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“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”
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“Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.”
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“Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.”
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“And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.”
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“Autumn's the mellow time.”
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“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.”
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“I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.”
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“Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.”
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“You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.”
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“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.”
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“The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.”
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“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”
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“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.”
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“Nature does nothing in vain.”
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“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”
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“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.”
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“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
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“This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.”
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“Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.”
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“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
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“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”
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“Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.”
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“Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.”
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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
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“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.”
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“Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.”
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“Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.”
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“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”
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“Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.”
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“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
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“Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.”
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“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
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“Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.”
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“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
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“Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.”
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“Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.”
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“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
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“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
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“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
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“Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.”
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“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.”
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“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.”
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“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
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“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”
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“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”
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“I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.”
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“I am two with nature.”
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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”
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“All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.”
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“Nature is not human hearted.”
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“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”
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“When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.”
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“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”
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“Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.”
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“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”
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“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.”
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“If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.”
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“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”
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“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”
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“A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.”
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“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”
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“A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.”
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“I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
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“I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.”
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“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”
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“Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.”
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“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”
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“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
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“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.”
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“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.”
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“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.”
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“You can't just let nature run wild.”
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“Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.”
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“And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.”
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“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
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“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
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“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
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“Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.”
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“These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.”
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“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.”
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“I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.”
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“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.”
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“Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.”
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“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
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“He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.”
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“I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.”
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“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
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“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
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“To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.”
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“Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.”
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“The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.”
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“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”
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“Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.”
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“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
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“Nature abhors annihilation.”
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“What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?”
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“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
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“For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!”
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“Nature is a petrified magic city.”
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“Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.”
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“But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.”
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“The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.”
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“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”
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“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
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“The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.”
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“Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.”
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“Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
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“The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.”
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“It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.”
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“The stars that have most glory have no rest.”
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“The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.”
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“Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?”
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“Sunlight is painting.”
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“Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.”
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“It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.”
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“What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?”
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“Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.”
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“The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.”
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“There is the sky, which is all men's together.”
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“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
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“Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.”
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“My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.”
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“Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.”
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“We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.”
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“I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.”
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“I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.”
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“Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.”
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“Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.”
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“Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.”
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“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.”
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“In nature there are few sharp lines.”
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“Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it's important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.”
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“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
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“Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.”
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“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.”
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“Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.”
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“There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.”
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“Nature was my kindergarten.”
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“The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.”
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“My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.”
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“I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.”
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“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.”
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“We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.”
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
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“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
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“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
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“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
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“Colors are the smiles of nature.”
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“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.”
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“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.”
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“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
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“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
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“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.”
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“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”
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“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”
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“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”
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“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”
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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
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“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”
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“I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.”
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“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
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“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.”
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“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.”
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“I'm continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature's greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people's faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.”
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“Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”
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“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
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“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”
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“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
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“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
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“In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.”
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“You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.”
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“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
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“Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.”
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“Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.”
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“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
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“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
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“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”
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“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”
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“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
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“Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.”
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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”
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“Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.”
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“So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.”
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“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”
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“I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.”
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“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”
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“If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.”
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“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.”
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“It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.”
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“Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.”
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“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
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“I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.”
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“Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.”
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“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
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“Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.”
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“Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.”
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“We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.”
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“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”
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“The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.”
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“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”
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“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.”
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“There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.”
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“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
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“Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.”
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“In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.”
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“Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.”
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“Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.”
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“No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.”
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“All art is but imitation of nature.”
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“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”
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“In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'”
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“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.”
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“What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.”
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“It's my nature to be fearless.”
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“I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul… we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.”
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“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.”
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“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”
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“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.”
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“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”
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“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.”
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“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”
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“External nature is only internal nature writ large.”
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.”
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“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.”
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“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.”
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“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.”
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“When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.”
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“Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.”
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“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
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“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.”
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“Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.”
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“There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
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“All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.”
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“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
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“We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.”
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“For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.”
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“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
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“Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.”
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“Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.”
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“The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.”
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“All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person.”
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“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.”
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“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.”
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“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”
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“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
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“I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.”
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“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
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“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.”
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“Happiness, for me, has to be real - life that is made of real conversations, of spending quality time with close friends, walks in nature and woods, praying, feeling real gratitude, reading good books, being able to be in the moment and hearing the sounds of nature.”
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“As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.”
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“The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.”
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“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.”
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“The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.”
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“Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.”
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“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
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“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.”
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“The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.”
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“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.”
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“By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.”
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“It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.”
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“Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.”
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“It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my friends and really chill out.”
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“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”
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“By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.”
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“To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.”
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“One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.”
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“People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don't challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve.”
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“Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.”
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“To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.”
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“We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.”
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“Art will never be able to exist without nature.”
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“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.”
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“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
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“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”
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“Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.”
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“The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.”
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“The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.”
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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”
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“Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.”
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“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.”
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“I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.”
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“True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.”
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“I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.”
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“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”
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“All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?”
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“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.”
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“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”
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“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”
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“If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
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“A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.”
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“When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!”
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“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.”
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“I think I get inspiration from places where I see nature.”
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“Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.”
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“O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!”
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“Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.”
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“I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.”
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“It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.”
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“To eat steak rare… represents both a nature and a morality.”
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“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
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“I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.”
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“Law is born from despair of human nature.”
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“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.”
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“Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.”
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“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”
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“The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.”
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“Between death and a new birth, we know that our body, down to its smallest particles, is formed out of the cosmos. For we ourselves prepare this physical body, bringing together in it the whole of animal nature; we ourselves build it.”
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“Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.”
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“We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.”
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“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
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“Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.”
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“Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.”
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“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.”
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“Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.”
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“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”
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“Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.”
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“Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”
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“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
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“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.”
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“Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.”
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“If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.”
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“A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.”
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“Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.”
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“I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak.”
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“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”
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“Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.”
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“When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.”
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“That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.”
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“Only by observing the laws of nature can mankind avoid costly blunders in its exploitation. Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us. This is a reality we have to face.”
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“I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.”
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“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”
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“Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”
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“I feel like I'm walking into the illustrated pages of a fairy tale when I go to the vineyard. It draws you to nature and cleanses your soul, and you just don't want to leave.”
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“Great art picks up where nature ends.”
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“Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.”
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“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”
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“Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.”
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“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
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“There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.”
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“Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.”
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“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.”
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“As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.”
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“It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.”
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“Man is by nature a political animal.”
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“The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.”
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“If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.”
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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”
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“To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.”
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“Mother Nature just gave me the ultimate physique.”
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“There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.”
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“I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.”
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“Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.”
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“Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.”
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“Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.”
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“Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.”
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“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
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“Family, nature and health all go together.”
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“Habit is ten times nature.”
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“I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.”
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“No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.”
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“The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature.”
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“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”
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“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.”
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“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.”
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“If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.”
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“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.”
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“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.”
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“There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.”
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“Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.”
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“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.”
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“Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.”
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“By nature, men love newfangledness.”
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“Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.”
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“A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.”
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“Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.”
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“When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.”
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“If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.”
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“Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.”
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“The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen… We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.”
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“We are estranged from our own deeper physiology because we are no longer in contact with nature. Instead, we are controlling nature with air pollution, heating, technology. But you have to know you have a depth within yourself which needs to be stimulated. If it doesn't get stimulated it becomes weaker, like a muscle that's not being used any more.”
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“My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.”
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“It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.”
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“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.”
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“The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.”
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“Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.”
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“Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected… We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.”
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“Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.”
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“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.”
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“You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.”
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“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.”
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“Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.”
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“While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.”
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“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.”
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“Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.”
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“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”
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“Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.”
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“Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.”
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“I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.”
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“I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.”
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“Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.”
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“The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.”
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“We must return to nature and nature's god.”
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“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”
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“The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.”
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“I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.”
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“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”
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“Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.”
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“Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.”
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“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”
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“People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.”
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“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”
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“The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.”
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“Every successful person has a fair amount of self-control - it's just the nature of success.”
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“To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.”
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“The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.”
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“Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.”
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“Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.”
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“Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.”
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“Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.”
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“Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.”
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“Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.”
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“Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.”
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“Hidden nature is secret God.”
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“An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.”
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“Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.”
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“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.”
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“I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.”
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“Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.”
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“The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.”
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“Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.”
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“In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.”
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“A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.”
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“Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.”
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“I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.”
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“Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.”
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“Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.”
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“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.”
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“We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.”
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“If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?”
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“Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.”
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“Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.”
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“Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.”
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“I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.”
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“Envy is human nature.”
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“I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that's organized.”
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“The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.”
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“I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.”
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“None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.”
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“I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.”
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“No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.”
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“A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.”
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“Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.”
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“Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano is assembled with wood and iron. Nuclear power uses material from nature, but it's been manipulated by humans, and it produces something unnatural.”
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“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”
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“Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.”
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“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
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“The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
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“My dream is to save women from nature.”
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“Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.”
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“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.”
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“Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.”
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“I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.”
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“Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose.”
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“It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.”
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“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”
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“Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.”
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“All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.”
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“I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.”
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“The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.”
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“Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.”
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“Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.”
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“When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to go against control. Gunpowder has an inherent uncertainty and uncontrollability and is an important means for me to relieve myself of constraint.”
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“When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.”
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“By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.”
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“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
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“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.”
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“Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.”
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“Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.”
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“The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.”
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“It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.”
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“I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.”
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“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
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“Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.”
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“The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.”
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“The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.”
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“Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.”
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“Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.”
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“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”
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“Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.”
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“That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
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“I call myself a naturalist as opposed to an atheist, but there are different styles. Some people just like to be close to nature. And some people actually worship nature, which is too wishy-washy because - like a lot of religious believers - they don't depend on facts.”
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“To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.”
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“You cannot put a contaminant in the ground and just think that Mother Nature whips it up and runs it off somewhere else and we never see it again.”
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“I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature.”
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“Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.”
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“It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.”
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“Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.”
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“I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.”
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“Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.”
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“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”
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“Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland.”
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“Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.”
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“It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.”
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“Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.”
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“I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop.”
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“For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.”
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“When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.”
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“It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things.”
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“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”
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“For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.”
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“Nature conserves, prefers novelty.”
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“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”
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“Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance… We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.”
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“Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.”
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“That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.”
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“Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms.”
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“Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.”
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“There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.”
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“Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.”
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“Nature is under control but not disturbed.”
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“There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.”
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“Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up new ways to hijack your system by exploiting technical vulnerabilities or human nature. Don't become the next victim of unscrupulous cyberspace intruders.”
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“If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.”
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“I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?”
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“There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.”
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“Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.”
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“Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'”
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“The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.”
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“Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.”
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“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
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“My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.”
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“Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.”
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“This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.”
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“Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.”
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“If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the realization that everything we need is already inside us and anything is attainable.”
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“Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.”
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“Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.”
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“Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.”
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“There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.”
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“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”
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“Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.”
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“Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.”
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“Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.”
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“To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.”
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“'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.”
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“What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.”
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“The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.”
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“Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.”
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“We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us.”
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“Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.”
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“Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.”
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“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.”
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“Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.”
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“Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.”
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“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.”
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“It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.”
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“The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.”
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“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”
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“As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.”
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“I've been taught that human nature is such that the place of privilege most often and most naturally leads to a sense of entitlement. The notion that I deserve to be treated as special because I'm privileged. The truth is, privilege should never lead to entitlement.”
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“I think I've got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can't see why other people can't be like that.”
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“Human nature is above all things lazy.”
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“In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery.”
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“Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.”
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“It's human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That's bias.”
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“We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.”
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“Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.”
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“I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.”
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“The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.”
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“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
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“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.”
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“That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.”
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“Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the 'Fibonacci sequence' to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.”
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“None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.”
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“For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.”
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“Keep close to Nature's heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
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“Hawaii is such a wonderful, healing place for me. I feel so at ease with the natives and love the tranquility of the islands. It is a place to find inner peace and be one with nature.”
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“If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.”
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“But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.”
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“Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.”
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“Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.”
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“Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.”
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“The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.”
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“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
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“To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.”
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“One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.”
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“Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.”
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“Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.”
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“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
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“The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.”
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“By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.”
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“Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.”
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“The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.”
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“Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.”
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“Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.”
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“The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society… The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.”
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“The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.”
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“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”
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“Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.”
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“There is a beauty in nature and culture that we no longer have access to. Those things you can't forget, you embroider… The further you tell, the further you travel from truth, which means, of course, that literature is a lie.”
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“Man is nature's sole mistake.”
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“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
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“It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.”
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“Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.”
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“Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.”
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“I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.”
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“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”
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“The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.”
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“At the end of the day, you can't compete with Mother Nature. If you've got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need.”
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“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”
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“When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.”
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“I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.”
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“Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.”
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“Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.”
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“I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!”
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“The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.”
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“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.”
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“The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.”
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“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.”
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“It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.”
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“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”
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“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.”
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“To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.”
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“We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune… Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.”
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“It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.”
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“Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.”
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“Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
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“Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.”
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“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.”
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“All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.”
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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
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“The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.”
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“In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.”
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“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”
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“Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.”
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“Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.”
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“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.”
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“As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.”
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“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.”
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“When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.”
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“Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.”
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“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”
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“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”
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“Nature never breaks her own laws.”
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“The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?”
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“I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it.”
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“Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.”
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“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”
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“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
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“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”
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“The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.”
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“The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.”
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“Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?”
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“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”
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“For greed all nature is too little.”
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“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.”
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“Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.”
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“Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.”
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“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.”
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“There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.”
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“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”
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“And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.”
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“Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.”
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“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.”
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“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”
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“No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.”
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“See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
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“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”
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“An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.”
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“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.”
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“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”
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“What is art? Nature concentrated.”
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“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
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“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.”
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“Custom is second nature.”
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“Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.”
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“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”
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“Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.”
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“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
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“When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.”
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“I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.”
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“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.”
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“We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.”
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“Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.”
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“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”
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“I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.”
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“It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.”
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“Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.”
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“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.”
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“Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.”
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“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”
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“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
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“Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.”
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“Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.”
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“Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”
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“It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.”
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“It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.”
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“Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.”
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“I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.”
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“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
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“Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.”
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“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.”
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“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”
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“Over time, we as humans have developed a different attitude towards nature and we've forgotten about our inner power.”
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“The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.”
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“And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.”
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“If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.”
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“Nature does not compartmentalise. Its instinct is integrative and holistic.”
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“We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.”
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“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”
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“Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.”
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“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.”
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“I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.”
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“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
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“I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and marvel in beauty and nature.”
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“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.”
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“Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.”
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“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
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“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
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“Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.”
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“The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.”
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“By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.”
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“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.”
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“It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.”
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“Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God's manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.”
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“A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.”
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“Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.”
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“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.”
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“Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.”
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“I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.”
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“A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.”
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“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”
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“Nature is our chapel.”
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“The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.”
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“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
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“One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.”
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“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
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“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”
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“Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.”
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“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.”
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“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.”
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“Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.”
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“Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.”
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“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.”
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“In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.”
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“By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.”
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“I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.”
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“There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.”
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“I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.”
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“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.”
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“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”
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“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”
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“He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.”
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“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”
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“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.”
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“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”
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“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”
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“Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.”
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“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.”
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“Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.”
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“The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.”
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“Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.”
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“It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.”
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“I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.”
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“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”
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“We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.”
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“Nature has always had more force than education.”
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“Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!”
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“Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.”
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“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.”
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“The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?”
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“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.”
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“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.”
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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
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“The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.”
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“I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.”