Nature Quotes
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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.
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It is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.
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'My constant appeal to American liberals was to face the long, hard years and not to distract us with the offer of short cuts and easy solutions begotten by good will out of the angels of man's better nature...The road to freedom and peace is a hard one.'
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?
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Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.
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By nature, we're Adam's children - not God's. Because of Adam's sin, his kids became sinners, and spiritually children of the devil.
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The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.
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In the midst of the confusions of nature one person trusting eternally in another, and making himself and the other secure through faith.
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He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.
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I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
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I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.
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It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.
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We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
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The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.
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I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.
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My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.
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Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.
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I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.
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Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
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According to their nature, there are both people who have quick intelligence, and those who must withdraw and take time to think things over.
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The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?
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There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.
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As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.
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A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.
