Nature Quotes
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Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.
Marina and the Diamonds
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A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
P. D. James
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There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.
Charles Nodier
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Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
Jimmy Wales
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Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.
Honore de Balzac
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I am, as you know, a fan of nature, said Reginald. And yet, nature doesn't find ways to do anything. Nature has no opinion, no agenda. Nature provides a playing field, a not particularly level one, on which we compete with all creatures great and small.
Charlie Jane Anders
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The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.
Lao Tzu
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Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!
William Shakespeare
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Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.
David Rockefeller
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Most calves and fawns will soon die. Only the luckiest and fittest will survive. Therefore either hunters or Mother Nature can take them. The logical harvesting strategy is to take calves or fawns during the fall hunting seasons, before winter can waste them.
Valerius Geist
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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.
Ben Harper
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
Kenneth L. Pike
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He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
Aristotle
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And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.
Og Mandino
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Taking a backseat role is not in my nature.
Pollyanna Chu
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Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.
Claudius Claudianus
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
Tacitus
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Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
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In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself.
Neri Oxman
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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
Plato