Nature Quotes
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Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.
Octave Mirbeau
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
Sam Kean
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Man is not above nature, but in nature.
Ernst Haeckel
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The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
Larry Bird
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
Laura Esquivel
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
Sam Trammell
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
Karan Singh Grover
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When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.
Nate Berkus
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is no single concept of nature; it embraces everything that is fluid, changing, and mysterious. Ultimately, however, to “know nature” on earth is to live within it and to revere it in every way.
Carolyn Merchant