Nature Quotes
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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
Oscar Wilde
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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
Oscar Wilde
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Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.
Li Keqiang
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Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.
Alison Gopnik
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I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.
Edwidge Danticat
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To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.
Elias James Corey
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Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
Vincent Van Gogh
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For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.
D.B.C. Pierre
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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.
Francis Bacon
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
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Being a professional screenwriter is perhaps the hardest occupation. Because nothing is ever yours and, by the nature of the medium, you are never ultimately responsible for your work. It can be interesting - if you have another outlet.
John Gregory Dunne
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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue, for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.
Aristotle
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Kids are truthful by nature.
Anna Chlumsky
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One can never study nature too much and too hard
Vincent Van Gogh
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Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.
Aristotle
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
Che Guevara
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
Bodhidharma
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When you play with another piano player, it's just second nature to play the parts that need to be played.
Leon Russell
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I know that my image and my clothing and my output are very colorful and can be arresting and startling in some respects. That is the nature of my work, but I am a simple farm boy, and I am very calm by nature.
Jeremy Scott
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It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
Alexandre Dumas
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Being in the middle of nature and the woods is my favorite thing
CloZee
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Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature.
Jerome K. Jerome
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The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.
Confucius