Nature Quotes
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I love the instantaneous nature of filming rather than the repetition of working in the theatre, but that maybe because I haven't had great experiences working in the theatre.
Emilia Fox
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The difference between the swimming marathon and the pool events is mainly down to the weather. Nature always gives us external factors to deal with.
Poliana Okimoto
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I cannot get from the nature of the proposition to the individual logical operations!!! That is, I cannot bring out how far the proposition is the picture of the situation. I am almost inclined to give up all my efforts. --
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
Leonardo da Vinci
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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.
Donella Meadows
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For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
James Gleick
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I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.
Jesse Eisenberg
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.
Bette Midler
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The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.
Kathryn Harrison
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The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
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Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
Napoleon Hill
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Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
Laura Esquivel
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I have always been free with my love - it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me.
Christine Keeler
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There are so many elements flying in so many different directions that you really have to go with what feels like instinctively. The nature of the universe is fairly whimsical and nonsensical. In the most somber, beatific peacefulness there's complete chaos and maniacal laughter. I think music that doesn't reflect that is boring.
Beck
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Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.
Ziggy Marley
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If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.
Elmer Rice
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Much of the prejudice against Islam in the West stems from a lack of understanding of the true nature of Islam as a religion professed by 1.4 billion people in the world.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.
J. G. Ballard
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It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.
Dick Van Dyke
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The heart which, like a staff, was one For mine to lean and rest upon, The strongest on the longest day With steadfast love, is caught away, And yet my days go on, go on.And cold before my summer's done, And deaf in Nature's general tune, And fallen too low for special fear, And here, with hope no longer here, While the tears drop, my days go on.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
Pierce Brosnan
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Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.
Albert Einstein
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I just realized, sometime early on in college, that I wanted to be a philosopher. I basically decided that I wanted to spend my life thinking as deeply and carefully and reflectively as I could about the nature of reality and our human engagement with it, and that taking a philosophical approach was the best way to go about doing this.
L.A. Paul