Nature Quotes
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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.
Aristotle
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
Jonathan Swift
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I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.
Shane Carruth
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To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.
Brad Pitt
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Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
Jonathan Swift
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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.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
Thomas Carlyle
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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
Paul Gauguin
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Nature was taking back what had once been hers.
Nevada Barr
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Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.
Anthony Standen
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There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.
E. T. Whittaker
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The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.
H. W. Brands
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I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks and balances will tend towards corruption and abuse. That's why you have meat inspectors. Not because you hate butchers, but because of an understanding of human nature.
Van Jones
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
Thomas Carlyle
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In the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.
Alan Weisman
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Bright star! would I were stedfast as thou art-Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike taskOf pure ablution round earth's human shores.
John Keats
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Paul Klee
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The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.
Laeta Kalogridis
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Western art has a certain relationship to nature.
Brice Marden
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Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
William Shenstone
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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
Sherman Alexie
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The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
Georges Cuvier