Nature Quotes
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The essential nature cannot be corporeal, yet it is also clear that this soul is present in a particular bodily part, and this one of the parts having control over the rest.
Aristotle
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer
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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
Arthur Keith
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We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.
Emmanuelle Beart
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Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light.
Yasunari Kawabata
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Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making.
M. L. Stedman
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Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made of an energetic nature, than of an indolent and impassive one.
John Stuart Mill
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In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It’s their nature. They can’t help it.
Carl Sagan
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Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever's on fire, I'm afraid.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes
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I'm lively and gay by nature.
Monica Vitti
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Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.
Alfred W. Crosby
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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
Alice Hoffman
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We talk of unsophisticated nature-I should like to know where it is to be found.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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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.
Sara Teasdale
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I see not the shadow of a reason to conclude that their the sexes' virtues should differ in respect to their nature. In fact, how can they, if virtue has only one eternal standard? I must therefore, if I reason consequentially, as strenuously maintain that they must have the same simple direction as that there is a God.
Mary Wollstonecraft
